Dem. People's Rep. Korea - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Dem. People's Rep. Korea was 41.23 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 83.25 in 1971 and 41.23 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 69.32
1961 71.15
1962 69.64
1963 66.76
1964 65.32
1965 66.51
1966 66.43
1967 70.02
1968 75.40
1969 79.56
1970 81.05
1971 83.25
1972 82.29
1973 79.55
1974 76.99
1975 75.36
1976 73.48
1977 72.06
1978 70.83
1979 69.27
1980 67.23
1981 64.19
1982 61.71
1983 59.42
1984 56.99
1985 54.33
1986 52.92
1987 50.77
1988 48.46
1989 46.75
1990 45.91
1991 45.24
1992 45.46
1993 46.21
1994 46.88
1995 47.16
1996 47.52
1997 47.45
1998 47.09
1999 46.79
2000 46.70
2001 46.74
2002 46.96
2003 47.24
2004 47.40
2005 47.34
2006 47.34
2007 47.07
2008 46.62
2009 46.16
2010 45.76
2011 45.42
2012 45.24
2013 45.10
2014 44.77
2015 44.17
2016 43.62
2017 42.78
2018 41.92
2019 41.35
2020 41.23

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