CHART OF THE DAY: Dependency Ratios Around The World Joe Weisenthal | Jul. 21, 2011, 2:01 PM
In predicting growth, demographers like to look at a country's "Dependency Ratio," a measure of how many old people there are, and how many young working people there are to support them.
Obviously, the more young people there are, relative to old people, the better (theoretically).