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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Ukraine was 49.12 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 53.78 in 1964 and 42.52 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 52.41
1961 52.66
1962 53.13
1963 53.61
1964 53.78
1965 53.53
1966 53.42
1967 52.81
1968 51.94
1969 51.20
1970 50.76
1971 50.11
1972 49.84
1973 49.84
1974 49.85
1975 49.78
1976 50.11
1977 50.22
1978 50.18
1979 50.08
1980 49.98
1981 49.82
1982 49.66
1983 49.54
1984 49.43
1985 49.32
1986 49.47
1987 49.52
1988 49.53
1989 49.59
1990 49.75
1991 50.07
1992 50.46
1993 50.74
1994 50.68
1995 50.15
1996 49.42
1997 48.28
1998 46.93
1999 45.69
2000 44.75
2001 44.42
2002 44.34
2003 44.37
2004 44.27
2005 43.91
2006 43.62
2007 43.23
2008 42.85
2009 42.60
2010 42.52
2011 42.89
2012 43.23
2013 43.62
2014 44.13
2015 44.79
2016 45.62
2017 46.59
2018 47.60
2019 48.47
2020 49.12

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