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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Editor’s Note: Is America really about to suffer an economic crisis at the hands of its aging population? But the magnitude of the coming demographic challenges — namely the prospect of a burgeoning ...

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 ...

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 ...

The revision to Japan’s supplementary fiscal 2020 budget to include provision of ¥100,000 cash handouts to all residents has raised the bond dependency ratio to 45.4%. A supplementary budget for ...

Chad recorded an age dependency ratio of 98.1% in 2022. Hence, the working-age individuals in Chad have many dependents to support. The proportion of dependents aged below 15 and above 64 per 100 ...