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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Moldova was 39.63 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 67.02 in 1965 and 34.76 in 2014.

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 61.21
1961 62.58
1962 64.13
1963 65.62
1964 66.65
1965 67.02
1966 66.97
1967 66.36
1968 65.26
1969 63.90
1970 62.46
1971 60.57
1972 59.01
1973 57.74
1974 56.59
1975 55.46
1976 55.05
1977 54.37
1978 53.59
1979 52.95
1980 52.61
1981 52.43
1982 52.49
1983 52.72
1984 52.98
1985 53.26
1986 54.06
1987 54.92
1988 55.72
1989 56.35
1990 56.76
1991 57.17
1992 57.18
1993 56.84
1994 56.20
1995 55.31
1996 54.32
1997 53.25
1998 52.05
1999 50.64
2000 48.98
2001 47.25
2002 45.34
2003 43.36
2004 41.47
2005 39.75
2006 38.82
2007 38.02
2008 37.37
2009 36.82
2010 36.36
2011 35.88
2012 35.40
2013 34.98
2014 34.76
2015 34.85
2016 35.50
2017 36.47
2018 37.61
2019 38.70
2020 39.63

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