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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Israel was 20.77 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20.77 in 2020 and a minimum value of 7.91 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 7.91
1961 8.16
1962 8.44
1963 8.74
1964 9.05
1965 9.38
1966 9.62
1967 9.84
1968 10.08
1969 10.35
1970 10.67
1971 11.05
1972 11.45
1973 11.89
1974 12.35
1975 12.84
1976 13.28
1977 13.74
1978 14.19
1979 14.57
1980 14.86
1981 14.94
1982 14.91
1983 14.83
1984 14.76
1985 14.72
1986 14.75
1987 14.79
1988 14.85
1989 14.90
1990 14.92
1991 15.07
1992 15.24
1993 15.44
1994 15.67
1995 15.96
1996 15.98
1997 16.02
1998 16.07
1999 16.13
2000 16.20
2001 16.19
2002 16.18
2003 16.17
2004 16.15
2005 16.13
2006 16.16
2007 16.19
2008 16.26
2009 16.45
2010 16.77
2011 16.98
2012 17.26
2013 17.62
2014 18.02
2015 18.43
2016 18.93
2017 19.44
2018 19.93
2019 20.38
2020 20.77

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

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population