Country A has approximately 100,000 children between the ages of 0 and 14, although it has a high infant mortality rate. It also has 202,000 elderly people who have retired from work, although most continue to live in multi-generational households with their children and grandchildren. Country A also has 310,000 people who can participate in the workforce. We can use these data to calculate that the
A) dependency ratio is about 50 percent.
B) life expectancy ratio is about 50 percent.
C) population ratio is high.
D) dependency ratio is about 67 percent.
E) dependency ratio is about 33 percent.
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