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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Cyprus was 44.90 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 74.50 in 1961 and 41.35 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.

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Year Value
1960 74.25
1961 74.50
1962 73.92
1963 72.55
1964 70.78
1965 68.98
1966 69.03
1967 69.13
1968 69.27
1969 69.41
1970 69.59
1971 67.09
1972 64.70
1973 62.72
1974 61.15
1975 59.83
1976 58.28
1977 56.71
1978 55.19
1979 53.72
1980 52.30
1981 52.59
1982 52.76
1983 52.93
1984 53.12
1985 53.32
1986 53.65
1987 53.80
1988 54.01
1989 54.37
1990 54.79
1991 54.51
1992 54.17
1993 53.80
1994 53.32
1995 52.69
1996 52.28
1997 51.48
1998 50.48
1999 49.45
2000 48.43
2001 47.63
2002 46.82
2003 46.02
2004 45.22
2005 44.43
2006 43.80
2007 43.12
2008 42.46
2009 41.86
2010 41.35
2011 41.41
2012 41.51
2013 41.71
2014 41.99
2015 42.31
2016 42.85
2017 43.37
2018 43.90
2019 44.42
2020 44.90

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