Bosnia and Herzegovina - Age dependency ratio

Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Bosnia and Herzegovina was 48.01 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 71.01 in 1961 and 42.00 in 2014.

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 70.74
1961 71.01
1962 71.00
1963 70.66
1964 70.04
1965 69.17
1966 69.04
1967 68.31
1968 67.21
1969 66.10
1970 65.15
1971 64.07
1972 63.34
1973 62.70
1974 61.80
1975 60.51
1976 59.26
1977 57.69
1978 55.94
1979 54.25
1980 52.74
1981 51.15
1982 49.78
1983 48.59
1984 47.48
1985 46.42
1986 45.75
1987 45.19
1988 44.78
1989 44.53
1990 44.39
1991 44.32
1992 44.40
1993 44.60
1994 44.92
1995 45.42
1996 45.58
1997 45.80
1998 46.07
1999 46.29
2000 46.39
2001 46.58
2002 46.55
2003 46.29
2004 45.89
2005 45.39
2006 44.62
2007 43.95
2008 43.35
2009 42.77
2010 42.24
2011 42.34
2012 42.25
2013 42.04
2014 42.00
2015 42.29
2016 42.86
2017 43.98
2018 45.43
2019 46.83
2020 48.01

Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Bosnia and Herzegovina was 26.52 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 26.52 in 2020 and a minimum value of 5.88 in 1960.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, old, is the ratio of older dependents--people 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 5.88
1961 6.05
1962 6.24
1963 6.43
1964 6.61
1965 6.77
1966 6.95
1967 7.09
1968 7.20
1969 7.31
1970 7.43
1971 7.69
1972 7.95
1973 8.19
1974 8.37
1975 8.48
1976 8.66
1977 8.80
1978 8.89
1979 8.91
1980 8.85
1981 8.69
1982 8.48
1983 8.26
1984 8.09
1985 7.99
1986 8.12
1987 8.33
1988 8.63
1989 9.02
1990 9.51
1991 10.17
1992 10.91
1993 11.72
1994 12.56
1995 13.41
1996 13.97
1997 14.48
1998 14.97
1999 15.49
2000 16.07
2001 16.86
2002 17.73
2003 18.58
2004 19.24
2005 19.65
2006 19.90
2007 19.92
2008 19.82
2009 19.76
2010 19.86
2011 19.95
2012 20.08
2013 20.22
2014 20.37
2015 20.60
2016 21.54
2017 22.68
2018 23.95
2019 25.26
2020 26.52

Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Bosnia and Herzegovina was 21.50 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 64.96 in 1961 and a minimum value of 21.30 in 2017.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, young, is the ratio of younger dependents--people younger than 15--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 64.87
1961 64.96
1962 64.76
1963 64.24
1964 63.43
1965 62.40
1966 62.08
1967 61.22
1968 60.01
1969 58.79
1970 57.72
1971 56.37
1972 55.39
1973 54.51
1974 53.43
1975 52.02
1976 50.60
1977 48.89
1978 47.05
1979 45.34
1980 43.89
1981 42.46
1982 41.30
1983 40.33
1984 39.39
1985 38.43
1986 37.63
1987 36.86
1988 36.15
1989 35.51
1990 34.89
1991 34.15
1992 33.49
1993 32.88
1994 32.36
1995 32.01
1996 31.60
1997 31.32
1998 31.10
1999 30.80
2000 30.32
2001 29.72
2002 28.81
2003 27.72
2004 26.65
2005 25.74
2006 24.72
2007 24.03
2008 23.53
2009 23.01
2010 22.38
2011 22.39
2012 22.17
2013 21.83
2014 21.63
2015 21.69
2016 21.32
2017 21.30
2018 21.47
2019 21.58
2020 21.50

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population