Structure by age, sex and income
THE age structure shows the percentage of young people, adults and seniors, and the structure by sex refers to the distribution of the population with percentage of men and women.
THE population structure it is represented in the form of a pyramid, which is classified into the broad base of the pyramid, the tapered body of the pyramid, and the apex of the pyramid. The broad base of the pyramid corresponds to the number of young people in a country. individuals aged between 0 and 19 years, representing approximately 40% of the population Brazilian. The funneled body of the pyramid corresponds to people aged between 20 and 59 years, representing about 51% of the population. The apex of the pyramid corresponds to people over 59 years of age, corresponding to 9% of the population.
In recent decades, there has been a change in the Brazilian age structure due to factors such as falling mortality rates and birth rate, as well as an increase in life expectancy, automatically causing an increase in growth natural/vegetative.
The Brazilian population is structured according to the sectors of economic activities, that is, where Brazilians are earning their livelihood. Today, about 50% of people make up the PEA (Economically Active Population), which represents people who work or are looking for work, and 32% form the inactive population, people who do not study, do not work and are not looking for, or are not yet of age. compatible.
The population is divided according to their income or income, in this context, there is a high degree of inequality, caused by the concentration of income, characteristic of capitalist countries, which is characterized by the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, while the majority live in extremely exclusionary.
Income concentration aggravates social inequalities. In Brazil, the portion of the population considered rich corresponds to 18 million people, meanwhile how do the other 170 million Brazilians live?
Eduardo de Freitas
Graduated in Geography
Brazil School Team
Source: Brazil School - https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/brasil/estrutura-populacao-brasileira.htm
