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Under which condition is child dependency most likely to decline?

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Correct answer: Birth rate is steadily declining

Child dependency refers to the number or share of children compared with the working-age population. It tends to be high when many babies and young children are entering the population. If the birth rate declines steadily, each new child cohort is usually smaller than the preceding one. After some time, children form a smaller proportion of the total population, so the child dependency ratio declines, assuming other conditions do not offset this trend.

Option A is therefore correct. A rapidly rising birth rate and an increasing number of newborns would normally raise child dependency rather than reduce it. Low child mortality combined with many births would also leave more children alive and dependent. The effect is not caused by an immediate disappearance of children; it develops as smaller cohorts replace larger earlier cohorts over time.

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