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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Japan was 48.01 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 48.01 in 2020 and a minimum value of 8.77 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 8.77
1961 8.83
1962 8.89
1963 8.94
1964 9.00
1965 9.07
1966 9.23
1967 9.39
1968 9.57
1969 9.76
1970 9.96
1971 10.22
1972 10.49
1973 10.76
1974 11.04
1975 11.34
1976 11.72
1977 12.10
1978 12.49
1979 12.86
1980 13.21
1981 13.55
1982 13.86
1983 14.17
1984 14.48
1985 14.82
1986 15.19
1987 15.58
1988 16.00
1989 16.48
1990 17.04
1991 17.64
1992 18.31
1993 19.04
1994 19.80
1995 20.58
1996 21.41
1997 22.26
1998 23.13
1999 24.00
2000 24.89
2001 25.78
2002 26.67
2003 27.58
2004 28.54
2005 29.54
2006 30.51
2007 31.50
2008 32.54
2009 33.72
2010 35.07
2011 36.45
2012 37.97
2013 39.59
2014 41.17
2015 42.66
2016 43.96
2017 45.13
2018 46.17
2019 47.12
2020 48.01

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