Which of the following statements is/are correct?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The age-sex structure of a population refers to the number of females and males in different age groups. A population pyramid is used to show the age-sex structure of the population. The shape of the population pyramid reflects the characteristics of the population. Thus, options 1 and 2 are wrong.
The left side shows the percentage of males while the right side shows the percentage of women in each age group.