Armenia - Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Armenia was 17.52 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 17.86 in 2005 and a minimum value of 8.21 in 1987.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, old, is the ratio of older dependents--people 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 11.54
1961 11.27
1962 10.99
1963 10.72
1964 10.48
1965 10.30
1966 10.23
1967 10.19
1968 10.17
1969 10.13
1970 10.08
1971 10.04
1972 9.96
1973 9.86
1974 9.76
1975 9.67
1976 9.66
1977 9.65
1978 9.62
1979 9.52
1980 9.35
1981 9.16
1982 8.92
1983 8.68
1984 8.48
1985 8.36
1986 8.26
1987 8.21
1988 8.25
1989 8.43
1990 8.76
1991 9.51
1992 10.44
1993 11.48
1994 12.51
1995 13.44
1996 14.05
1997 14.47
1998 14.78
1999 15.13
2000 15.61
2001 16.11
2002 16.74
2003 17.37
2004 17.79
2005 17.86
2006 17.72
2007 17.29
2008 16.70
2009 16.16
2010 15.81
2011 15.59
2012 15.52
2013 15.55
2014 15.64
2015 15.75
2016 15.97
2017 16.21
2018 16.52
2019 16.95
2020 17.52

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