The World's Craziest Population Pyramids

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[jayantlingamaneni]

I wonder how accurate the population projections of 2100 will end up being. 50 years back(roughly speaking) people thought that the population would keep increasing for a long time yet now we see that it's peaked or going to peak soon for many countries. Maybe just as how those predictions were wrong, so could our projections?

[cmcumm]

Russia's population pyramid is one of these you should look at. It has a lot of "waves" of people percentage in middle ages. It is echo of ww2, where a lot of young people, potential fathers were killed at the front in 1941, and not only after ~20 years, but even after ~40 years after war, number of born children was much less, than is other years

[RsSooke]

On a smaller scale I live in the capital of the province of BC in Canada, it’s called Victoria. We have the highest proportion of people over the age of 80 in the country. I can see the demand for health care and living assistance for this population. As we move more in this direction you have to wonder if everyone’s needs will really be met.

[UniquelyCritical]

South America: Am I a joke?
Oceania: Yeah. It's rough buddy.

[georgios_]

What these graphs don't account for are wars, economic and political turmoil moving forward and migration. They just account for current trends, which one could hardly argue will continue unhindered. Take any predictions after the year 2050 with a huge grain of salt.

[jamielonsdale]

The one thing I think that would have improved this video would have been to show a sample of 5 different nations with 'typical' demographics pyramids at the start. Greenland and Antarctica would have been interesting additions, if purely because of their exceptionally low populations.

Antarctica surprisingly also has the lowest infant mortality rate of any continent - 0%; with 11 out of 11 babies born there surviving.

[deu]

Would be interesting to see Nigeria's population pyramid through the ages up until 2100

[danz]

There is a far, far worse problem to consider which is the accelerating pace of industrialization. The first wave of industrializing countries took over a century for the balance in their populations to shift from rural to urban. The latest wave is going from heavily agrarian to mostly urban in a generation and to being able to sustain population increases unlikely any in human history. They are able to do this thanks to the integrated global economic system. if that collapses due to war or due to a big country like China or Russia saying that they don't like the current rules and really being willing to enforce a change in the waters they can reach the entire system could collapse. If that happens, Africa will experience the mother of all famines.

[samshare]

India, the US, and some developed nations in Europe would have been nice to see and compare with those shown in the video.

[bofetada]

Birth rate is the biggest influence over social, political, and economical policies of a country.

[searching]

The male to female disproportion is always so heartbreaking. Female infanticide is despicable.

[LuminousKugelblitz]

You should have included Eastern Europe, India and USA. Other countries like Iran, South America and Bangladesh would have been interesting. ( because they have managed their birthrate in a short period of time).

[SCTproductionsJ]

It'd be cool to see these graphs with the raw numbers instead of just percentages... I feel like it'd give a better idea of what has happened through the years

[nestrior]

An important thing to note is that our measurement of "development" is also a measurement of how much is spent on a child in all aspects. Which isn't to say that it is cheap or easy to raise one in poorer countries. But an increasing problem in our so-called "developed world" is that the younger generations don't feel like they have the time and money to have offspring in the first place. Japan, with its work ethics that led to a term for working well beyond exhaustion being coined in the 1970s, is a very good example of this. There even are enough people that withdraw from everything for similar reasons called "hikikomori." China has seen movements of a similar vein in "lying flat" and a recent one I've forgotten the name of. If anything, all these are indicative of greater systemic and societal problems that we can't solve with our current way of thinking about work and life.

[sakischakal]

I don't know where you got your data from but China has already peaked and it's population will crash the coming decades down to 600-700 million not 1 billion

[pollutingpenguin]

Do a video on the lancet study on the population projection of the world - their projections are even more stark and drastic with China being halved by 2050

[calorawetsock]

i wonder what it would be like to be 80-84 in Niger

[romane.]

An interesting thing to note is that there is a fertility gap between the desired amount of children and the actual birth rates in developed countries that in my opinion is linked to the cost of living for parents. Children are very expensive in the developed world with it being over 200 thousand USD over the 18 years without accounting for college or a tradeschool and with the replacement rate for the population being around 2.1 on average a parental unit needs to be able to support over thousand dollars to give their child they want and if they can't with the spread of contraception and safe sex practices they chose not to. Obviously it would be a terrible idea to ban contraception due both the moral and practical effects it would have on the spread of std's so they we can do to safe guard our population from demographic shackle of the older generations taking up an increasing share of our effort as they go into retirement is to increase child care support for parents and make sure they know how they can get support along with fixing the general cost of living crisis that is going through the western world.

[adityavarshney]

Ive lives in Bahrain for most of my life, and I can agree on the fact that there are much more men than women, and most of the men there are adults

[kateb]

How are we still holding Elon Musk up as a beacon of intelligence after everything we’ve seen to the contrary? 😂 Great video until that point