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 ...

Dependency ratio measures non-working age population; high ratios strain social services. Rising U.S. dependency ratio shows more seniors, stressing Medicare and Social Security. View dependency ...

Continued increases in longevity will ensure that the old-age dependency ratio, which measures the number of elderly people as a share of those of working age, will rise sharply in most countries over ...

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, ...

A lower dependency ratio does not necessarily mean higher growth rates ...

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 ...