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If a country's working-age group is 55 percent and children plus elderly together form 45 percent, how may dependency pressure be described?

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Correct answer: Significant but the working-age group is still larger

Dependency pressure compares people commonly regarded as dependent, especially children and older persons, with the working-age population that may support them. Here, the working-age group is 55 percent and dependents together are 45 percent. The working-age population is therefore larger, but nearly half of the population is still in dependent groups. This means the burden cannot be called zero or negligible, even though it is not greater than the working-age share.

Option A is correct: dependency pressure is significant, while the working-age group remains larger. Dependents are not twice the working-age population, because 45 percent is less than 55 percent. The data also combine children and older people, so the situation cannot be described as only elderly dependency. The exact dependency ratio would be approximately \(45/55\times100\approx81.8\) dependents per 100 working-age persons, reinforcing that the pressure is substantial.

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