Country a Has Approximately 100,000 Children Between the Ages of 0

question 36

Multiple Choice

Country A has approximately 100,000 children between the ages of 0 and 14, although it has a high infant mortality rate. It also has 202,000 elderly people who have retired from work, although most continue to live in multi-generational households with their children and grandchildren. Country A also has 310,000 people who can participate in the workforce. We can use these data to calculate that the

• A) dependency ratio is about 50 percent.
• B) life expectancy ratio is about 50 percent.
• C) population ratio is high.
• D) dependency ratio is about 67 percent.
• E) dependency ratio is about 33 percent.

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