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The ratio that indicates the burden of the non-working population on the working-age population is called :

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UPSSSC Lower PCS 2026 Question Paper (23-Aug-2026)
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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.

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