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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Belarus was 48.86 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 62.92 in 1965 and 40.57 in 2010.

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 59.36
1961 60.86
1962 61.82
1963 62.36
1964 62.70
1965 62.92
1966 62.71
1967 62.41
1968 61.92
1969 61.16
1970 60.14
1971 58.75
1972 57.49
1973 56.36
1974 55.34
1975 54.39
1976 53.77
1977 52.96
1978 52.05
1979 51.19
1980 50.46
1981 49.82
1982 49.37
1983 49.08
1984 48.90
1985 48.83
1986 49.18
1987 49.54
1988 49.88
1989 50.23
1990 50.61
1991 51.16
1992 51.62
1993 51.92
1994 51.97
1995 51.73
1996 51.02
1997 50.17
1998 49.21
1999 48.15
2000 47.07
2001 46.42
2002 45.78
2003 45.11
2004 44.36
2005 43.52
2006 42.88
2007 42.11
2008 41.36
2009 40.81
2010 40.57
2011 40.89
2012 41.47
2013 42.26
2014 43.15
2015 44.06
2016 44.78
2017 45.52
2018 46.44
2019 47.57
2020 48.86

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