The Strategic
Significance of the Population Pyramid

David Rew, University Hospital Southampton

Those readers of BAR who take time to look up from their Ordnance Survey maps to the heavens, will know that we occupy a very small planet in a very large, cold and relatively empty Universe. 70 per cent of the Earth is sea water, for occupation by plankton, by cruise liners and by the Royal Navy, and the top and bottom of the Globe are very cold indeed. The habitable surface of the globe spans approximately from 60 degrees of Latitude above to 60 degrees below the Equator.

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