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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Armenia was 48.45 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 89.78 in 1965 and 43.48 in 2011.

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.

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Year Value
1960 81.83
1961 84.79
1962 87.05
1963 88.60
1964 89.51
1965 89.78
1966 89.36
1967 88.15
1968 86.27
1969 83.97
1970 81.47
1971 78.13
1972 75.16
1973 72.40
1974 69.65
1975 66.86
1976 64.70
1977 62.39
1978 60.15
1979 58.27
1980 56.81
1981 55.79
1982 55.17
1983 54.86
1984 54.68
1985 54.55
1986 54.49
1987 54.52
1988 54.70
1989 55.05
1990 55.46
1991 56.50
1992 57.62
1993 58.71
1994 59.65
1995 60.36
1996 60.00
1997 59.20
1998 58.10
1999 56.92
2000 55.83
2001 54.41
2002 53.36
2003 52.46
2004 51.41
2005 50.06
2006 48.88
2007 47.36
2008 45.78
2009 44.51
2010 43.79
2011 43.48
2012 43.51
2013 43.84
2014 44.31
2015 44.84
2016 45.43
2017 46.09
2018 46.82
2019 47.60
2020 48.45

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