The ratio that indicates the burden of the non-working population on the working-age population is called :
Dependency Ratio
The dependency ratio measures how many people outside the working ages have to be supported by every hundred people within them. It is usually written as the population aged 0–14 plus the population aged 60 and above, divided by the population aged 15–59, expressed per hundred.
A falling dependency ratio is what demographers call the demographic dividend, since a larger share of the population is of working age and can save and produce. A rising ratio signals either a very young population or an ageing one, and in both cases the burden on earners increases.
The other ratios measure something else. The labour force ratio and the worker population ratio look at how much of the population is actually in the labour force or actually employed, and the employment-to-population ratio is a synonym of the latter. None of them expresses the load of non-workers on the working-age group.
Hence, the answer is the Dependency Ratio.
Important Questions from Indian Economic and Human Geography
In India, oil wells are found in:
Which of the following is a non-Conventional source of energy?
Select the top Four States with highest population according to census 2011
In which of the following district Manganese is found ?
Monu went on a trip, when he return back he told his classmates that he travelled the longest National Highway of India. You have to tell on which of the following tour he was ?
