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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Pakistan was 64.39 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 89.37 in 1993 and 64.39 in 2020.

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 77.28
1961 77.97
1962 78.39
1963 78.73
1964 79.22
1965 79.92
1966 81.13
1967 82.44
1968 83.76
1969 84.88
1970 85.70
1971 86.66
1972 87.28
1973 87.64
1974 87.86
1975 88.00
1976 88.13
1977 88.13
1978 88.03
1979 87.85
1980 87.62
1981 87.60
1982 87.43
1983 87.18
1984 86.94
1985 86.74
1986 87.18
1987 87.61
1988 87.99
1989 88.25
1990 88.34
1991 88.93
1992 89.26
1993 89.37
1994 89.32
1995 89.11
1996 88.69
1997 88.06
1998 87.25
1999 86.25
2000 85.05
2001 84.07
2002 82.91
2003 81.60
2004 80.22
2005 78.81
2006 77.51
2007 76.19
2008 74.86
2009 73.53
2010 72.21
2011 71.18
2012 70.16
2013 69.17
2014 68.23
2015 67.35
2016 66.70
2017 66.09
2018 65.52
2019 64.95
2020 64.39

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