Kyrgyz Republic - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Kyrgyz Republic was 59.69 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 93.82 in 1967 and 52.49 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 76.60
1961 80.22
1962 83.72
1963 86.93
1964 89.59
1965 91.51
1966 93.13
1967 93.82
1968 93.72
1969 93.08
1970 92.07
1971 90.58
1972 89.19
1973 87.80
1974 86.20
1975 84.31
1976 82.44
1977 80.35
1978 78.20
1979 76.25
1980 74.65
1981 73.47
1982 72.65
1983 72.17
1984 71.92
1985 71.78
1986 72.26
1987 72.66
1988 73.02
1989 73.41
1990 73.81
1991 74.71
1992 75.38
1993 75.79
1994 75.86
1995 75.56
1996 74.47
1997 73.14
1998 71.60
1999 69.87
2000 67.92
2001 66.28
2002 64.43
2003 62.32
2004 60.02
2005 57.73
2006 56.24
2007 54.82
2008 53.67
2009 52.89
2010 52.49
2011 52.63
2012 53.15
2013 53.95
2014 54.90
2015 55.85
2016 56.93
2017 57.71
2018 58.34
2019 58.99
2020 59.69

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