1.

First of all the population pyramid from Mauritania is a concave one because it has a high
birth rate and a low death rate. The difference between these two percentages is a lot, this
is the reason why it has a concave shape. The death rate occupies most of the pyramid’s
base and most of the population’s percentage, while the death percentage bars are way
too small. So the population pyramid has a concave shape because the birth rate occupies
a higher scale than the death rate. Expansive pyramids as this one are usually find
showing populations with very high fertility rate and lower than average life expectancies.
Finally, Mauritania’s pyramid has a natural increase since the birth rate is much higher than
the death rate.

2. The life expectancy of this country is low, an extremely short amount of people get to live
up to 100 years or more. A really few percentage of the Mauritania’s population lives up to 80
years. The female’s birth rate is a little bit lower than the man’s one, but the difference is not
much big. Mauritania has a really low life expectancy and a really high birth rate specially for
men. In most of the graph the difference of the death rate, birth rate and life expectancy varies
between men and women and the difference between the birth rates is mostly of 0.3%, this
means that 0.3% more women are born in this country. But in the measurement the pyramid
gets thinner more or less in the middle we may see that the women are the ones who die first
for example: women from 30 to 35 years= 2,9% while 3,0% of men have chances to live up to
these ages. But to finish with we see that women are the ones who last from 60- 80 years,
while the percentage of life for men is lower.

3. This country is a LEDC by this we refer to a less economically developed country. We may
notice this because there are many children which don’t have the capacity or responsibility of
working this means that they do not produce money, and in the other hand there are every few
adults between the thirty and the sixty years. This low rate of adults and big amount of babies
complicates and blocks the good economy, production of food, etc. This is clearly bad for the
country because it doesn’t have much opportunities of moving on in economic terms, of
evolution, changing and/or advancing. By simply looking at the population pyramid we may
conclude that the education and health care are not completely appropriate because the
amount of newborn babies is really big, this shows that Mauritania has a low education, also
the fact that there are not much workers leads to the fact that there are not much teachers,
which reduces an opportunity of a really good or at least acceptable education. The population
dies at a really young age and a very few percentage survive until the 60-64 years, this means
that the health is not good and medicine is not much evolved.

Conclusion:

Mariana’s country was Senegal, it is mainly similar to mine because of the shape it has. Both
pyramids are concave and expansive, meaning that the amount of newborns is bigger than
people dying at an older age. Both countries have a low life expectancy and a high birth rate
giving the country a unbalanced population, being lots of children with no possibilities of work
and leading adults to die from a young age. In Senegal’s population pyramid, there are way
much more female workers in the economic area than men, in the other hand in Mauritania the
difference between the gender’s population is not much large ( it can vary from 0:3% to 1%). In
Senegal, women have a much longer life expectancy than men, in Mauritania too but the
difference is not much bigger. Both countries are LEDC ( less economically developed
countries), which prevents the freedom of a high-quality or at least acceptable education.
Medicine does not have changes or evolution in neither countries because of the poor
economy that they have, this leading to have. Lower expectancy of life, a higher death rate and
a higher birth rate. There are no much differences between the population pyramid of these
two countries, the similarities between them predominate, making of them both countries in
the same continent, showing that Africa is not a much developed continent.