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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Qatar was 18.10 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 79.52 in 1960 and 15.74 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 79.52
1961 77.94
1962 76.17
1963 74.33
1964 72.41
1965 70.51
1966 68.42
1967 66.28
1968 64.38
1969 62.80
1970 61.49
1971 60.59
1972 59.14
1973 57.43
1974 55.77
1975 54.39
1976 54.22
1977 54.04
1978 53.96
1979 54.06
1980 54.37
1981 50.71
1982 48.10
1983 46.22
1984 44.67
1985 43.21
1986 43.77
1987 43.64
1988 43.15
1989 42.59
1990 42.03
1991 41.39
1992 41.02
1993 40.85
1994 40.64
1995 40.29
1996 39.88
1997 39.27
1998 38.63
1999 38.15
2000 37.87
2001 35.43
2002 33.46
2003 31.95
2004 30.80
2005 29.88
2006 24.17
2007 20.43
2008 18.09
2009 16.67
2010 15.74
2011 16.05
2012 16.14
2013 16.31
2014 16.60
2015 16.87
2016 17.11
2017 17.29
2018 17.52
2019 17.81
2020 18.10

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