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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Belarus was 25.66 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 49.55 in 1965 and a minimum value of 20.93 in 2009.

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 46.06
1961 47.51
1962 48.49
1963 49.05
1964 49.38
1965 49.55
1966 49.14
1967 48.60
1968 47.87
1969 46.89
1970 45.70
1971 44.09
1972 42.64
1973 41.34
1974 40.13
1975 38.94
1976 38.06
1977 36.99
1978 35.87
1979 34.93
1980 34.29
1981 33.86
1982 33.73
1983 33.82
1984 33.93
1985 33.99
1986 34.28
1987 34.47
1988 34.56
1989 34.58
1990 34.53
1991 34.52
1992 34.34
1993 34.00
1994 33.51
1995 32.87
1996 31.78
1997 30.73
1998 29.65
1999 28.49
2000 27.25
2001 26.21
2002 25.15
2003 24.10
2004 23.16
2005 22.39
2006 21.85
2007 21.40
2008 21.09
2009 20.93
2010 20.94
2011 21.23
2012 21.66
2013 22.21
2014 22.82
2015 23.43
2016 23.91
2017 24.31
2018 24.70
2019 25.14
2020 25.66

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