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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Iran was 45.58 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 97.11 in 1988 and 40.98 in 2012.

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 87.78
1961 89.40
1962 91.05
1963 92.45
1964 93.24
1965 93.29
1966 93.66
1967 93.27
1968 92.36
1969 91.26
1970 90.17
1971 89.64
1972 89.00
1973 88.32
1974 87.65
1975 87.04
1976 86.83
1977 86.67
1978 86.61
1979 86.72
1980 87.13
1981 88.63
1982 90.18
1983 91.71
1984 93.05
1985 94.10
1986 95.74
1987 96.76
1988 97.11
1989 96.71
1990 95.48
1991 94.07
1992 91.93
1993 89.20
1994 86.09
1995 82.72
1996 78.41
1997 74.29
1998 70.24
1999 66.20
2000 62.19
2001 58.43
2002 54.84
2003 51.56
2004 48.70
2005 46.32
2006 44.66
2007 43.30
2008 42.29
2009 41.60
2010 41.23
2011 40.98
2012 40.98
2013 41.20
2014 41.63
2015 42.22
2016 42.75
2017 43.44
2018 44.22
2019 44.96
2020 45.58

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