One tool demographers use to understand the effects of population age structures is the ________ ratio, which relates the number of persons in what are considered the dependent-age categories to the number in the independent or working-age categories.
A) independent
B) dependency
C) worker
D) demography
E) none of the above

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The dependency ratio is a measure used by demographers to compare the number of individuals considered dependent (typically those under 15 and over 64) to those in the working-age group (typically 15-64).

One Tool Demographers Use to Understand the Effects of Population