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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Albania was 46.93 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 88.85 in 1966 and 45.55 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.

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Year Value
1960 83.71
1961 84.95
1962 86.24
1963 87.43
1964 88.29
1965 88.65
1966 88.85
1967 88.46
1968 87.65
1969 86.63
1970 85.55
1971 84.25
1972 83.02
1973 81.74
1974 80.26
1975 78.55
1976 77.08
1977 75.34
1978 73.50
1979 71.79
1980 70.30
1981 69.00
1982 67.87
1983 66.89
1984 65.98
1985 65.13
1986 64.43
1987 63.82
1988 63.28
1989 62.70
1990 61.99
1991 62.72
1992 63.31
1993 63.74
1994 64.08
1995 64.41
1996 63.35
1997 62.42
1998 61.58
1999 60.71
2000 59.72
2001 58.69
2002 57.54
2003 56.32
2004 55.07
2005 53.85
2006 52.62
2007 51.60
2008 50.75
2009 50.04
2010 49.48
2011 48.12
2012 47.03
2013 46.26
2014 45.77
2015 45.55
2016 45.65
2017 45.68
2018 45.81
2019 46.20
2020 46.93

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