'dependent population' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to a population who relies on another population, group, or individual for some sort of support. For example: The dependent population of the elderly often relies on family members for financial and emotional support.
The aged, child and total dependency ratios show the size of the dependent population relative to the working age population.
The country will need a rapidly growing economy to support this dependent population.
Ireland was suddenly free of the enormous social cost of supporting and educating and caring for a large dependent population.
China, for its part, also took advantage of a "demographic dividend": fertility rates fell, and the labour force grew faster than the dependent population, freeing up resources to invest in people and capital.
And that makes optimal rates much lower than previously thought.Not everyone of working age contributes equally to supporting the dependent population.
As a result, the working-age population in East Asia grew three-and-a-half times faster than the dependent population between 1965 and 1990.
The growing CNT population is divided into subpopulations, each having a narrow diameter range, enabling the quantification of the diameter-dependent population dynamics.
In addition, when microorganism individuals increase greatly, owing to the density-dependent population growth, the effect of saturation growth rate leads to a constant number of microorganism individuals.
According to the 2007 survey, the number of GAG-dependent population (23,666) was a lot higher than that of GMA (1,146) (MoARD 2010).
Poisson statistics of spontaneous activity; high correlations among neurons due to strong common noise input; encoding of a sensory signal in the time-dependent population rate.
A previous study modelled the evolution of a hypothetical resistance to the lethal construct using a frequency-dependent population genetic and population dynamic approach.
