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If elderly people form 20 percent and the working-age population forms 50 percent of a country, what can be said about elderly dependency pressure?

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Correct answer: It may be relatively significant

Elderly dependency pressure compares the number of older people with the population that is normally considered of working age. Here, older people form 20 percent while the working-age group forms 50 percent. A simple illustrative comparison is elderly people divided by working-age people: 20 divided by 50 equals 0.4, or 40 older people per 100 working-age people, if these broad shares are used. This indicates a meaningful burden relative to the potential worker base.

Option A is correct because the elderly share is substantial compared with the working-age share. The exact official elderly-dependency ratio may use specific age limits, such as 65 and above compared with ages 15–64, so the question does not provide enough detail for a formal exact ratio. It is nevertheless clearly not zero and is related to the working-age population. Equality with child dependency cannot be inferred without child-age data.

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Elderly DependencyWorking Age PopulationPension PressureAgeingAge StructurePopulation CompositionGeographyClass 12 Mcq

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