Bongaarts, John (contributor) - 2004
/worker ratio value of 0.71 is observed in Italy, a country that also has the highest
values for the old-age dependency ratio (0 … is
called the support ratio. For the developed world as a whole the old-age dependency ratio in
2000 stood at 0.25, which … levels of fertility and migra-
tion in recent decades and their ODRs are therefore lower.
The old-age dependency ratio is …