Dependency ratio

Case study: Gambia

Learning Objective
To find out what causes a youthful population structure to occur
and to discover what happens when a country has a high
dependent population (in this case - too many young people).
Who are dependants?
Dependency ratio is...

…..the relationship between the working (economically

active) population and the non- working population
The dependency ratio=
The group of people aged 0 – 15 is sometimes referred to
as...
Who are dependants
Define the term dependency ratio
Gambia
Youthful population case study: Gambia
Drag the red dot to locate the Gambia on the map
Shortly list the reasons why the dependency ratio in the Gambia is
so high.
Shortly list the problems of high rate of dependency ratio