- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Part I Setting the Stage
- 1 How and Why Population Matters: New Findings, New Issues
- 2 The Population Debate in Historical Perspective: Revisionism Revised
- 3 Dependency Burdens in the Developing World
- Part II Population Change and the Economy
- 4 Economic and Demographic Change: A Synthesis of Models, Findings, and Perspectives
- 5 Demographic Change, Economic Growth, and Inequality
- 6 Saving, Wealth, and Population
- 7 Cumulative Causality, Economic Growth, and the Demographic Transition
- Part III Fertility, Poverty, and the Family
- 8 Population and Poverty in Households: A Review of Reviews
- 9 Demographic Transition and Poverty: Effects Via Economic Growth, Distribution, and Conversion
- 10 Inequality and the Family in Latin America
- 11 Demographic Changes and Poverty in Brazil
- Part IV Population, Agriculture, and Natural Resources
- 12 Rural Population Growth, Agricultural Change, and Natural Resource Management in Developing Countries: A Review of Hypotheses and Some Evidence from Honduras
- Part V Some Economics of Population Policy
- 13 Why Micro Matters
- 14 New Findings in Economics and Demography: Implications for Policies to Reduce Poverty
- Index
Dependency Burdens in the Developing World
Dependency Burdens in the Developing World
- Chapter:
- (p.55) 3 Dependency Burdens in the Developing World
- Source:
- Population Matters
- Author(s):
John Bongaarts
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The dependency burden, which is the ratio of dependent young and old to the population of working age, varies as a country moves through demographic transition. Following a modest initial rise, the dependency ratio typically undergoes a prolonged period of decline during the central part of transition. This decline is closely linked to the decline in fertility. The timing, duration and magnitude of the decline in dependency rate in mid-transitional societies are largely determined by the timing, duration, and magnitude of fertility declines.
Keywords: dependency burden, demographic transition, developing countries, young, old, fertility
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Part I Setting the Stage
- 1 How and Why Population Matters: New Findings, New Issues
- 2 The Population Debate in Historical Perspective: Revisionism Revised
- 3 Dependency Burdens in the Developing World
- Part II Population Change and the Economy
- 4 Economic and Demographic Change: A Synthesis of Models, Findings, and Perspectives
- 5 Demographic Change, Economic Growth, and Inequality
- 6 Saving, Wealth, and Population
- 7 Cumulative Causality, Economic Growth, and the Demographic Transition
- Part III Fertility, Poverty, and the Family
- 8 Population and Poverty in Households: A Review of Reviews
- 9 Demographic Transition and Poverty: Effects Via Economic Growth, Distribution, and Conversion
- 10 Inequality and the Family in Latin America
- 11 Demographic Changes and Poverty in Brazil
- Part IV Population, Agriculture, and Natural Resources
- 12 Rural Population Growth, Agricultural Change, and Natural Resource Management in Developing Countries: A Review of Hypotheses and Some Evidence from Honduras
- Part V Some Economics of Population Policy
- 13 Why Micro Matters
- 14 New Findings in Economics and Demography: Implications for Policies to Reduce Poverty
- Index
