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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Thailand was 41.86 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 90.72 in 1969 and 39.04 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 85.35
1961 86.44
1962 87.29
1963 87.96
1964 88.52
1965 89.02
1966 89.72
1967 90.29
1968 90.65
1969 90.72
1970 90.44
1971 90.21
1972 89.42
1973 88.23
1974 86.81
1975 85.25
1976 83.63
1977 81.97
1978 80.21
1979 78.23
1980 76.00
1981 73.54
1982 70.99
1983 68.39
1984 65.84
1985 63.40
1986 61.05
1987 58.83
1988 56.76
1989 54.89
1990 53.21
1991 52.03
1992 50.97
1993 50.02
1994 49.13
1995 48.28
1996 47.27
1997 46.32
1998 45.43
1999 44.62
2000 43.91
2001 43.17
2002 42.54
2003 41.99
2004 41.45
2005 40.92
2006 40.45
2007 40.01
2008 39.62
2009 39.29
2010 39.04
2011 39.23
2012 39.38
2013 39.53
2014 39.73
2015 40.01
2016 40.16
2017 40.43
2018 40.82
2019 41.30
2020 41.86

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