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Describe what you can learn about a population's potential for growth, based on its age pyramid. Choose a specific example to analyze, and present your understanding of its potential.

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A population's growth rate can be estimated, based on its age pyramid, which graphically visualizes the distribution of the population over age groups. Populations that are "top-heavy" (large population of elderly) may have a negative growth rate, since many of its population will be dying over the next few years. Populations that are "middle heavy" (large population of ...

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