In France, even though fertility has been higher, the dependency ratio will still jump, from 28% to 51% over the same period (see chart 2).This soaring elderly dependency ratio will test European budgets to the limit.
So, the "aged dependency ratio" argument lacks the decisive impact claimed for it.
Monique Morrisey, the Economic Policy Institute economist, cautions that the worker: beneficiary ratio is the pertinent metric rather than the "aged dependency ratio," which does not measure the relationship of beneficiaries to actual or even estimated working people to beneficiaries.
The aged dependency ratio for the SEACO sub-district is almost twice the national ratio.
These have caused a corresponding rise of the elderly dependency ratio.
The result has been a low "dependency ratio"—the proportion of dependants to people at work.
The dependency ratio relates the number of elderly (those 65 and older) to the working-age population (those 20 to 64).
The cover story in the Summer issue of The American Scholar contains landmark analysis by Lincoln Caplan, visiting lecturer at Yale Law School and senior advisor to Encore.org, on the need to reconsider the old-age dependency ratio [OADR].
The rise in the old age dependency ratio – the ratio between people older than 64 to the working-age population – has been particularly acute.
According to The Economist, the old-age dependency ratio measures the number of elderly people as a share of those of working age.
The claimed inexorable failure of funding depends on two unwarranted assumptions: First, that the "dependency ratio" of working people to beneficiaries determines the sufficiency of program revenue.
