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Obsolete spelling of dependent
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South Asia will reach its peak ratio of workers to dependants between 2015 and 2025.
In the next few years, the ratio of Chinese workers to dependants will stop rising and start falling.
So has demography: birth-rates are falling after a period of high growth, increasing the proportion of wage earners to dependants.
People are living longer and, as parents realise that children have better chances of survival, fertility rates are falling, leading eventually to a higher ratio of working-age adults to dependants.
Unemployment is officially 28%, but even state statistics show that half of the 5.7m "employed" are day labourers, which means that the ratio of full-time workers to dependants is one to ten.
As it does so, the age pyramid becomes like a Chinese lantern, the ideal shape for economic development, since it maximises the number of working-age people in relation to dependants, both young and old.In the developing world, this first occurred in East Asian countries like South Korea after fertility started to plunge in the 1960s.
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Pleural effusion may also appear on longitudinal views, next to dependant lung between the chest wall and the diaphragm.
The secret, it seems, is to sell to the dependants of the immobilised.
People should ask themselves what would happen to financial dependants if the worst were to happen, whatever it may be.
4. How easy is it to pass on a pension to my dependants?
However, May has circulated proposals to ban dependants from being employed in low-skilled jobs, according to The Times.
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