The given data above compares the population of France and India in terms of age distribution by gender in the year 1984.
From observing the graphs, it can be inferred that in 1984, the population of India was younger than that of France, with a noticeably larger proportion of people aged under 20. France, on the other hand, had a significantly larger percentage of elderly inhabitants.
In India, close to 14% of people were aged 5 or under, and each five-year age bracket above contained an increasingly smaller ratio of the population. France’s population, by contrast, was more evenly distributed across all the age ranges, with similar figures (around 7% to 8% of all people) for each five-year cohort between ages 0 and 40. Somewhere between 10% and 15% of all French people were aged 70 or older, but the equivalent figure for India was only 2%.
Looking more closely at gender, there was a significantly higher proportion of Frenc women than men in every cohort from age 50 upwards. For example, almost 3% f French 70 to 75-year-olds were women, while just under 2% were men. No significant gender differences can be seen on the Indian population chart.