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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Armenia was 30.92 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 79.47 in 1965 and a minimum value of 27.89 in 2011.

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 70.29
1961 73.51
1962 76.05
1963 77.88
1964 79.03
1965 79.47
1966 79.13
1967 77.96
1968 76.10
1969 73.84
1970 71.39
1971 68.09
1972 65.20
1973 62.54
1974 59.89
1975 57.18
1976 55.04
1977 52.73
1978 50.54
1979 48.75
1980 47.47
1981 46.63
1982 46.25
1983 46.18
1984 46.19
1985 46.19
1986 46.23
1987 46.31
1988 46.45
1989 46.62
1990 46.71
1991 46.99
1992 47.18
1993 47.24
1994 47.15
1995 46.92
1996 45.95
1997 44.73
1998 43.32
1999 41.79
2000 40.22
2001 38.31
2002 36.62
2003 35.09
2004 33.63
2005 32.21
2006 31.16
2007 30.07
2008 29.08
2009 28.35
2010 27.98
2011 27.89
2012 28.00
2013 28.29
2014 28.67
2015 29.08
2016 29.46
2017 29.88
2018 30.29
2019 30.65
2020 30.92

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