Talk:Dependency ratio

message: Most 15-year-olds, and many first-year postsecondary students, are dependent on their parents. Wouldn't 20 be a better cut-off point, at least in industrialized countries? NeonMerlin 21:14, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It would make more sense to have the non-working/population ratio, because as you say, a lot of people don't work before 18, 20 or even later. Some take early/late retirements. Plus, in Europe in particular, as unemployment is high, a lot of 15-65 don't work and are therefore dependants. I don't even think that stay-at-home parents are counted as unemployed and yet they're dependent too as they don't collect salaries. So while dependency ratio can increase (because of ageing population) the non working/population can decrease at the same time, if employment goes up.AtikuX (talk) 04:47, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The age should be whatever amount of people are over the legal working age but those who are in full time education should not be counted... or so they teach us at college.--Play Brian Moore (talk) 17:25, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

text:  This article is very ambiguous, at first stating that dependents are under 16 and over 64 and then using 14 as the lower figure in the formulae.--84.66.135.64 (talk) 12:36, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  15 too young 

message: Here is the 2010 world bank age dependency ratio map
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.DPND.OL/countries?display=map
And this is the table associated with it
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.DPND.OL Junk InThisSite (talk) 09:40, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  2010 World Bank Age Dependency Ratio Map and Table 

message: Down below is my bibliography on Dependency ratio Please let me know if you have any questions about the links that I have found or any advice that you have to offer.
 Brenda le11 (talk) 04:51, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  References added 

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message: Hello fellow Wikipedia editors,
I have a few contributions that I would like to add to the article. I plan to add more comparisons between dependency ratios in the different stages of the Demographic Transition and how it will overall affect the demography of that country. I want to add more recent data on countries that are struggling with their dependency ratios and the solutions that can be made to fix it. I will do more research on migrant labor dependency ratio and how that affects the demography of a country. I noticed that the aging in Japan and some countries in Europe in 2010 was tremendously higher compared to other parts of the world and I want to include more information on how that occurred, and what those they will do to fix their aging problem.
Let me know what you think of these ideas for the article. Brenda le11 (talk) 16:53, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional contributions to make the Article stronger