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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Uzbekistan was 50.58 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 105.58 in 1968 and 47.96 in 2015.

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 83.73
1961 87.54
1962 91.81
1963 96.07
1964 99.62
1965 102.13
1966 104.32
1967 105.38
1968 105.58
1969 105.28
1970 104.58
1971 103.12
1972 101.56
1973 99.80
1974 97.70
1975 95.29
1976 93.46
1977 91.21
1978 88.81
1979 86.63
1980 84.81
1981 83.56
1982 82.69
1983 82.12
1984 81.68
1985 81.26
1986 81.35
1987 81.35
1988 81.29
1989 81.21
1990 81.14
1991 81.52
1992 81.74
1993 81.75
1994 81.44
1995 80.72
1996 79.67
1997 78.19
1998 76.35
1999 74.29
2000 72.09
2001 69.60
2002 67.15
2003 64.70
2004 62.25
2005 59.84
2006 57.60
2007 55.56
2008 53.73
2009 52.11
2010 50.70
2011 49.86
2012 49.01
2013 48.33
2014 47.96
2015 47.96
2016 48.21
2017 48.77
2018 49.49
2019 50.13
2020 50.58

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