Definition: Ratio

OECD - Data and Metadata Reporting

Number that expresses the relative size of two other numbers.

Source:
Palmore, J., Gardner, R.W., 1994, "Measuring mortality, fertility and natural increase: a self teaching guide to elementary measures", East-West Centre, Honolulu, Hawaii [quoted in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), "Data and Metadata Reporting and Presentation Handbook", OECD, Paris, 2007]

Created:
2009-09-18

Updated:
2019-05-10