Neco Model Questions Vol1 2020 Economics Question 43
Practice objective / multiple choice question 43 from the 2020 Neco Model Questions Vol1 Economics examination.
A country's current population is 8 million. The crude birth rate (CBR) is 28 per 1,000, the crude death rate (CDR) is 12 per 1,000 and the net migration rate is -4 per 1,000 per year.\n(a) Compute the annual population growth rate (as a percentage).\n(b) Assuming this rate remains constant, estimate the population after 10 years (round to the nearest thousand).\n(c) The age‑structure percentages are: 0‑14 years = 35 %, 15‑64 years = 60 %, 65 + years = 5 %. Using the projected population from part (b), calculate the dependency ratio (young + old over working‑age, expressed as a percentage, rounded to one decimal place).
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This is Neco Model Questions Vol1 2020 Economics Question 43. It is one of the objective questions from the 2020 Neco Model Questions Vol1 Economics examination.
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