Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dependency ratio

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.46 in modern English

Syllables: de-pen-den-cy ra-tio
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The number of people under the age of 15 and over the age of 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force.

Inflected Forms

dependency ratios (plural)

Questions

What does dependency ratio mean?: The number of people under the age of 15 and over the age of 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force.

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