Hong Kong SAR, China - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Hong Kong SAR, China was 44.65 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 77.71 in 1962 and 33.11 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 76.56
1961 77.68
1962 77.71
1963 77.05
1964 76.13
1965 75.03
1966 74.93
1967 73.97
1968 72.37
1969 70.47
1970 68.50
1971 66.20
1972 64.30
1973 62.50
1974 60.46
1975 58.10
1976 55.80
1977 53.06
1978 50.29
1979 47.99
1980 46.28
1981 45.42
1982 44.97
1983 44.81
1984 44.72
1985 44.56
1986 43.98
1987 43.39
1988 42.83
1989 42.37
1990 41.99
1991 41.48
1992 41.12
1993 40.83
1994 40.52
1995 40.17
1996 40.03
1997 39.66
1998 39.25
1999 38.92
2000 38.65
2001 38.11
2002 37.68
2003 37.28
2004 36.80
2005 36.23
2006 35.39
2007 34.58
2008 33.85
2009 33.33
2010 33.11
2011 33.13
2012 33.34
2013 33.81
2014 34.62
2015 35.78
2016 36.89
2017 38.47
2018 40.40
2019 42.50
2020 44.65

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