What Is the Dependency Ratio

question 21

Multiple Choice

What is the dependency ratio?

• A)the number of children men support
• B)the percentage of women who work outside the home
• C)the amount of people that can be supported by an acre of land
• D)the number of literate adults relative to the total number of adults in a population
• E)the number of nonworking compared to with working individuals in a population

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Definitions:

Biological Differences

Variations at the biological and genetic levels that distinguish organisms, including differences within species such as between genders.

Natural Outcome

A result or consequence that emerges spontaneously from a set of conditions or actions, without being planned or forced.

Post-Structuralist

An intellectual movement that emerged in the 1960s as a critique of structuralism, focusing on the instability of meaning and the role of power in knowledge construction.

Normalizing Discourses

Conversations and narratives that establish and reinforce what is considered 'normal' or acceptable in society.