Answer» - The ratio between the number of male and female in the population is called sex ratio.
- Sex ratio is an indicator of status of women in the country.
- In population pyramid X-axis shows the percentage of population in a particular age group and Y-axis, which is at the centre of the graph shows age groups.
- The length of the bar shows number or percentage.
- The left side of the graph shows male population whereas, the right side of the graph shows female population.
- Thus, population pyramid indicates number of percentages of male and female population in different age groups in the country.
- e.g., If we want to know the percentage of male and female in 15-59 age group, we can get it from population pyramid.
- Therefore, we can study age-wise sex ratio using population pyramid.
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