CANADIAN DEMOGRAPHICS: AGE DISTRIBUTION
By Samatha Oliver
General Characteristics of Agricultural, Industrial, and Information Age Demographic Age Distribution
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Agricultural Age Demographic Age Distribution:
Shorter life span: plagues, diseases effected all social classes.
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Industrial Age Demographic Age Distribution:
Life span increased in developed, industrial countries, but new industrial and social diseases emerged.
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Information Age Demographic Age Distribution:
Aging populations in developed North countries, not developing South countries (where population is still more of child bearing age).
Information/Data on Canadian Demographic Age Distribution
Canada encourages their middle class families with tow or more children to have more babies. Their life expectancy for males are seventPears of age and for females eighty-two years of age(universal suffrage is at age eightteen).
Conclusions on Canada (Whether Primarily Agricultural, Industrial, or Information Age Re: the Age Distribution of Its Population)
Canada is in the post-industrial-information age. (Age Distribution of Population)
Additional Online Sources on Canada's Demographic Age Distribution
Traditional Bibliographic Sources on Canada's Demographic Age Distribution
- Encyclopedia of the Nations
- United Nations, Statistical Yearbook.
- CIA World Factbook