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If children form 15 percent and elderly people form 24 percent of a country's population, how would its age structure most likely be described?

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Correct answer: Ageing

Age structure describes how the population is divided among children, working-age people, and older people. In this case, children make up only 15 percent, while elderly people make up 24 percent. The older group is therefore considerably larger than the child group. Such a distribution is characteristic of an ageing population, often associated with low fertility and longer survival, although the question only requires the age-structure description.

Option B is correct because the elderly share is high relative to the child share. A very youthful population would have a large proportion of children, so A does not fit. The presence of children and elderly people means the population is not only working-age, making C incorrect. High child dependency is associated with a large child population, not a 15 percent child share alongside 24 percent elderly people, so D is also unsuitable.

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