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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Russia was 51.22 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 58.44 in 1962 and 38.88 in 2009.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 57.36
1961 58.30
1962 58.44
1963 57.95
1964 57.24
1965 56.51
1966 55.55
1967 54.54
1968 53.48
1969 52.41
1970 51.37
1971 50.18
1972 49.23
1973 48.46
1974 47.80
1975 47.20
1976 47.22
1977 47.06
1978 46.85
1979 46.72
1980 46.73
1981 46.73
1982 46.93
1983 47.26
1984 47.60
1985 47.88
1986 48.40
1987 48.79
1988 49.10
1989 49.40
1990 49.71
1991 50.32
1992 50.74
1993 50.93
1994 50.84
1995 50.42
1996 49.31
1997 48.13
1998 46.87
1999 45.56
2000 44.28
2001 43.67
2002 43.05
2003 42.39
2004 41.66
2005 40.84
2006 40.34
2007 39.71
2008 39.16
2009 38.88
2010 38.95
2011 39.41
2012 40.22
2013 41.29
2014 42.50
2015 43.74
2016 45.30
2017 46.84
2018 48.34
2019 49.81
2020 51.22

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