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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Bolivia was 60.49 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 84.51 in 1961 and 60.49 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 84.37
1961 84.51
1962 84.35
1963 83.98
1964 83.45
1965 82.80
1966 82.97
1967 82.89
1968 82.63
1969 82.27
1970 81.85
1971 82.13
1972 82.22
1973 82.18
1974 82.02
1975 81.75
1976 82.11
1977 82.25
1978 82.22
1979 82.00
1980 81.62
1981 81.82
1982 81.80
1983 81.61
1984 81.36
1985 81.08
1986 80.97
1987 80.81
1988 80.58
1989 80.26
1990 79.83
1991 79.70
1992 79.35
1993 78.84
1994 78.28
1995 77.69
1996 77.38
1997 77.02
1998 76.58
1999 76.04
2000 75.39
2001 74.89
2002 74.29
2003 73.64
2004 72.95
2005 72.22
2006 71.56
2007 70.81
2008 70.00
2009 69.18
2010 68.37
2011 67.55
2012 66.78
2013 66.01
2014 65.21
2015 64.37
2016 63.62
2017 62.81
2018 61.98
2019 61.20
2020 60.49

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