Dependency load

Dependency load is a term that shows the number of people below 14 and above 65 in any population. This is used to show how much strain there is on the working class to get income and support these people. A country with a high dependency load has a high number of people below 14 and above 65 in comparison to the working class between 14 and 65 years old. The dependency load basically shows the fraction of people in a country that need to be supported due to unemployment. There can sometimes be two dependency loads. One for male and one for female. It all depends on whether your population pyramid is using the population of girls as a 100% and boys as 100% therefore equaling 200% or if it is using just 100%.

The dependency load calculation is dividing the number of people between the ages of 14 and 65 by the total population of a specific country.