Population Projections, Dependency Ratios and Income per Person
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In this lesson
You project three age groups 25 years ahead, calculate total and old-age dependency ratios, and show how an ageing population slows the growth of income per person even while productivity keeps rising.
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Lessons in this course
- Growth Rates, GDP per Person & Doubling Time: Rule of 70 vs the Exact Formula Locked
- The Cobb–Douglas Production Function: Output per Worker & Marginal Products Locked
- The Solow Model Step by Step: Simulating Capital per Worker toward the Steady State Locked
- The Golden Rule: Which Saving Rate Maximises Consumption per Worker? Locked
- Growth Accounting: Capital, Labour and the Productivity Residual Locked
- Convergence: Catch-up Time, Growth vs Initial Income and a Fitted Prediction Locked
- Purchasing-Power Comparisons and a Composite Development Index Locked
- Population Projections, Dependency Ratios and Income per Person Locked