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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Tajikistan was 67.93 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 105.00 in 1968 and 62.82 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 80.72
1961 84.72
1962 89.22
1963 93.77
1964 97.68
1965 100.54
1966 103.14
1967 104.55
1968 105.00
1969 104.91
1970 104.53
1971 103.07
1972 101.60
1973 100.14
1974 98.54
1975 96.72
1976 95.77
1977 94.41
1978 92.84
1979 91.32
1980 90.04
1981 89.17
1982 88.65
1983 88.41
1984 88.34
1985 88.36
1986 88.98
1987 89.56
1988 90.13
1989 90.65
1990 91.03
1991 92.23
1992 92.96
1993 93.26
1994 93.20
1995 92.82
1996 91.85
1997 90.78
1998 89.50
1999 87.80
2000 85.62
2001 83.29
2002 80.56
2003 77.59
2004 74.64
2005 71.89
2006 69.77
2007 67.93
2008 66.37
2009 65.02
2010 63.87
2011 63.43
2012 63.03
2013 62.82
2014 62.93
2015 63.36
2016 64.17
2017 65.11
2018 66.13
2019 67.10
2020 67.93

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