{"id":2529,"date":"2006-08-21T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2529"},"modified":"2006-08-21T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T13:12:00","slug":"irelands-dependency-ratio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/08\/21\/09\/12\/irelands-dependency-ratio\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland’s Dependency Ratio"},"content":{"rendered":"

[The] relation between the number of people who aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t of working age and the number of people who are is captured in the dependency ratio. In Ireland during the sixties, when contraception was illegal, there were ten people who were too old or too young to work for every fourteen people in a position to earn a paycheck. That meant that the country was spending a large percentage of its resources on caring for the young and the old. Last year, Ireland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dependency ratio hit an all-time low: for every ten dependents, it had twenty-two people of working age. That change coincides precisely with the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s extraordinary economic surge.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[The] relation between the number of people who aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t of working age and the number of people who are is captured in the dependency ratio. In Ireland during the sixties, when contraception was illegal,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t