The two charts compare the population of France and India in terms of age distribution by gender in the year 1984.
Overall, the population of India was younger than that of France in 1984, 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 this percentage gradually dropped following the age of people. France, by contrast, was evenly distributed across the age ranges, with similar figures (around 7% to 8% of all people) for each five-year cohort between the ages of 0 and 40. Somewhere between 10% and 15% of all French people were aged 70 or older, but the equivalent figure in India was only 2%
Looking more closely at gender, there was a higher percentage of French women than men in every cohort from age 50 upwards. For example, almost 3% of French from 70 to 75 years old were women, while just under 2% were men.No significant gender differences can be seen on Indian population chart