When a country is ageing (median age above 40), it again has a high dependencyratio, this time because of old people.
而当一个国家趋向老迈时(中位年龄在40岁以上),依赖性比例仍然高,这是因为老人多的原故。
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When fertility is high and a country is young (median age below 20), there are huge numbers of children and the overall dependencyratio is high.
一个国家生育率高,表示这个国家很年轻(中位年龄在20岁以下),小孩数量庞大,依赖性比例相当高;
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The OECD expects Japan’s dependencyratio (of working-age to retirement-age citizens) to fall to 1.2 by 2050 and Germany’s to 1.6; Britain’s, by contrast, would be a relatively healthy 2.4.