Pakistan is an agrarian economy and has rural population largely dependent on natural resources.
That's no political wonder--65% to 70% of India's population is dependent upon agriculture for their livelihood.
According to the report, the percentage of the population that is dependent on welfare fell from 5.2 percent to 3.3 percent between 1996 -- when welfare reform was first enacted -- and 1999.
It also faces a demographic trap, with low fertility and an increasingly dependent aging population.
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Unless a cure is found (and none is in sight) what is actually happening is the creation of a huge population of people who are dependent on the taxpayers of the rich world.
New cafes are opening, sniper screens are coming down and shops are selling exotic fruits once again, but most people living in the city are unemployed and 70% of the population are wholly or partly dependent on aid supplies of flour, pasta, beans and rice.
It is estimated that 4.9% of the Scottish population aged 16 and over are dependent on alcohol.
Furthermore, oil-dependent governments, facing a population boom and realizing that they need to diversify their economy to create jobs and wealth, are subsidizing the industrial sector to manufacture plastics, chemicals and aluminum, all energy-intensive goods.
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But who will provide adequate long-term care to this population as it grows older, frailer and more dependent remains an open question.
And we had to make farming less labor-dependent, so that more of the population could enter non-farming occupations and support economic growth and development.
But the rise masks one big problem: Only 49% of Liberty's distance-learning students, the fastest-growing and easily the most profitable population, return year to year, making growth dependent on new-student recruitment.
The setting is Hanmouth, a fictional location in Southwest England, where along the outskirts of town exist a population of violent, work-shy, welfare-dependent scroungers pacified only by soap operas.
However, the hardcore dependent class today makes up far less than 47% of the population.
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In fact, parents with dependent children are no more likely to work from home than the population as a whole.
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