The ratio of workers paying into the system to people drawing benefits, after falling from 16.5 to 1 in 1950 to 3.2 to 1 now, will at last stabilize at about the current level.

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At the same time the ratio of active workers paying into the system to retirees drawing from the system has reached 1.86 to 1.

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