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dependency ratio: a standalone construct

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● anchor · the age-burden measure of a population Nearest construct by meaning·not indexed
dependencyratio1 CONSTRUCTDependency ratioWORKING-AGE · BURDEN

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Demography and population economics

Non-workers per hundred workers

The dependency ratio is the number of people in the typically non-working ages (children and older adults) relative to those in the working ages, usually expressed per hundred working-age people and split into youth and old-age components. It is a crude structural summary of how much of a population must be supported by its producers, used to anticipate pressure on pensions, schooling, and the labour force as a population ages or moves through the demographic transition. Preston, Heuveline, and Guillot's Demography: Measuring and modeling population processes sets out how such age-composition measures are built from a population's age structure. The ratio is an accounting construct defined by age boundaries, not a direct measure of economic activity, so it counts working-age non-earners and working retirees by age alone.[1]

Unit
Dependants (youth plus old-age) per 100 working-age people
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Computed from the age distribution as the ratio of those aged under 15 and 65 and over to those aged 15–64

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References

  1. Preston, S. H., Heuveline, P., & Guillot, M. (2001). Demography: Measuring and modeling population processes. Blackwell. ISBN 9781557864512

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