This chart shows the projected number of people aged 65+ per 100 people of working age in selected countries.

Economists have spent decades analyzing why some countries grow and others don’t. You can talk for ages about factors like education, disposable income, export growth, interest rates, business and tax ...

Since the Social Security Trustees' Report was released on June 5th, there have been a flurry of articles telling us that, alternately, either we should all be Very Worried or that, to the contrary, ...

Zambia is far from alone. A report from Charles Robertson at Renaissance Capital in November advises investors to be wary of countries with current-account deficits combined with fertility rates which ...

In this article, we will be covering the 20 countries with the highest age dependency ratio in the world. If you wish to skip our detailed analysis, you can move directly to the 5 Countries with the ...

A dependency ratio measures the number of people either too young or too old to work, compared to the number of people within working age. For the statistic’s sake, the working age is considered to be ...

Readers, it is but mere coincidence that the day after once again revisiting old-age dependency ratios in light of the coming insolvency of the Social Security Trust Fund, the CDC released its 2019 ...

Prior to the twentieth century, the age structure of most populations could be visualized as a pyramid. High fertility and mortality rates meant that the very young, who formed the wide base of the ...

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