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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Montenegro was 51.09 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 70.24 in 1963 and 47.26 in 2013.

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 69.49
1961 69.56
1962 69.89
1963 70.24
1964 70.23
1965 69.62
1966 69.78
1967 69.38
1968 68.54
1969 67.67
1970 67.07
1971 65.63
1972 64.48
1973 63.50
1974 62.41
1975 61.06
1976 60.10
1977 58.84
1978 57.40
1979 56.04
1980 54.89
1981 53.62
1982 52.64
1983 51.85
1984 51.11
1985 50.36
1986 50.51
1987 50.54
1988 50.50
1989 50.57
1990 50.79
1991 50.29
1992 50.05
1993 49.98
1994 49.90
1995 49.75
1996 49.83
1997 49.76
1998 49.58
1999 49.39
2000 49.28
2001 49.40
2002 49.58
2003 49.77
2004 49.87
2005 49.80
2006 49.56
2007 49.12
2008 48.57
2009 48.00
2010 47.52
2011 47.41
2012 47.31
2013 47.26
2014 47.36
2015 47.67
2016 48.09
2017 48.81
2018 49.67
2019 50.46
2020 51.09

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