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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Bangladesh was 47.02 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 92.95 in 1977 and 47.02 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.

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Year Value
1960 80.99
1961 82.27
1962 83.15
1963 83.82
1964 84.51
1965 85.33
1966 86.73
1967 88.14
1968 89.44
1969 90.34
1970 90.67
1971 91.40
1972 91.87
1973 92.08
1974 92.19
1975 92.33
1976 92.85
1977 92.95
1978 92.74
1979 92.27
1980 91.56
1981 91.35
1982 90.73
1983 89.84
1984 88.83
1985 87.77
1986 87.02
1987 86.16
1988 85.17
1989 83.99
1990 82.60
1991 81.52
1992 80.25
1993 78.84
1994 77.37
1995 75.86
1996 74.53
1997 73.17
1998 71.78
1999 70.37
2000 68.95
2001 67.84
2002 66.67
2003 65.47
2004 64.26
2005 63.05
2006 62.14
2007 61.18
2008 60.19
2009 59.17
2010 58.12
2011 56.95
2012 55.83
2013 54.72
2014 53.58
2015 52.40
2016 51.26
2017 50.09
2018 48.95
2019 47.92
2020 47.02

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