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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Albania was 25.32 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 78.64 in 1966 and a minimum value of 25.32 in 2020.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, young, is the ratio of younger dependents--people younger than 15--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 73.77
1961 74.98
1962 76.17
1963 77.25
1964 78.01
1965 78.35
1966 78.64
1967 78.40
1968 77.76
1969 76.89
1970 75.91
1971 74.70
1972 73.54
1973 72.33
1974 70.91
1975 69.27
1976 67.84
1977 66.15
1978 64.37
1979 62.72
1980 61.28
1981 59.99
1982 58.89
1983 57.93
1984 57.04
1985 56.22
1986 55.53
1987 54.95
1988 54.43
1989 53.85
1990 53.09
1991 53.52
1992 53.79
1993 53.88
1994 53.85
1995 53.83
1996 52.63
1997 51.57
1998 50.60
1999 49.59
2000 48.45
2001 47.08
2002 45.58
2003 43.99
2004 42.37
2005 40.77
2006 39.03
2007 37.47
2008 36.05
2009 34.75
2010 33.57
2011 31.80
2012 30.29
2013 29.04
2014 28.02
2015 27.17
2016 26.77
2017 26.26
2018 25.77
2019 25.44
2020 25.32

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

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population