Argentina - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Argentina was 55.77 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 66.08 in 1989 and 55.77 in 2020.

Definition: Age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents--people younger than 15 or older than 64--to the working-age population--those ages 15-64. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age population.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on age distributions of United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision.

See also:

Year Value
1960 57.68
1961 57.79
1962 57.75
1963 57.61
1964 57.44
1965 57.27
1966 57.26
1967 57.23
1968 57.20
1969 57.18
1970 57.19
1971 57.41
1972 57.66
1973 57.94
1974 58.28
1975 58.68
1976 59.44
1977 60.29
1978 61.17
1979 61.99
1980 62.69
1981 63.61
1982 64.17
1983 64.51
1984 64.84
1985 65.22
1986 65.33
1987 65.64
1988 65.97
1989 66.08
1990 65.86
1991 65.87
1992 65.55
1993 65.02
1994 64.47
1995 63.98
1996 63.57
1997 63.15
1998 62.73
1999 62.28
2000 61.79
2001 61.24
2002 60.74
2003 60.25
2004 59.73
2005 59.16
2006 58.75
2007 58.23
2008 57.67
2009 57.18
2010 56.82
2011 56.54
2012 56.38
2013 56.29
2014 56.21
2015 56.10
2016 56.10
2017 56.05
2018 55.95
2019 55.86
2020 55.77

Development Relevance: Patterns of development in a country are partly determined by the age composition of its population. Different age groups have different impacts on both the environment and on infrastructure needs. Therefore the age structure of a population is useful for analyzing resource use and formulating future policy and planning goals with regards infrastructure and development.

Limitations and Exceptions: Because the five-year age group is the cohort unit and five-year period data are used in the United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects, interpolations to obtain annual data or single age structure may not reflect actual events or age composition. For more information, see the original source.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Dependency ratios capture variations in the proportions of children, elderly people, and working-age people in the population that imply the dependency burden that the working-age population bears in relation to children and the elderly. But dependency ratios show only the age composition of a population, not economic dependency. Some children and elderly people are part of the labor force, and many working-age people are not. Age structure in the World Bank's population estimates is based on the age structure in United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects. For more information, see the original source.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Relevance to gender indicator: this indicator implies the dependency burden that the working-age population bears in relation to children and the elderly. Many times single or widowed women who are the sole caregiver of a household have a high dependency

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population