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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Azerbaijan was 43.38 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 99.52 in 1967 and 39.46 in 2012.

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 81.54
1961 85.25
1962 89.13
1963 92.75
1964 95.56
1965 97.26
1966 99.12
1967 99.52
1968 98.83
1969 97.62
1970 96.11
1971 93.93
1972 91.67
1973 89.16
1974 86.19
1975 82.79
1976 79.60
1977 76.18
1978 72.71
1979 69.46
1980 66.59
1981 64.33
1982 62.44
1983 60.94
1984 59.80
1985 59.02
1986 59.07
1987 59.35
1988 59.78
1989 60.30
1990 60.88
1991 61.85
1992 62.66
1993 63.29
1994 63.67
1995 63.74
1996 63.37
1997 62.64
1998 61.58
1999 60.25
2000 58.72
2001 56.83
2002 55.00
2003 53.12
2004 51.06
2005 48.84
2006 46.98
2007 44.99
2008 43.09
2009 41.49
2010 40.32
2011 39.71
2012 39.46
2013 39.52
2014 39.75
2015 40.08
2016 40.79
2017 41.40
2018 41.97
2019 42.63
2020 43.38

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