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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Bhutan was 45.14 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 87.44 in 1987 and 45.14 in 2020.

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 80.05
1961 80.55
1962 80.30
1963 79.70
1964 79.27
1965 79.26
1966 79.78
1967 80.50
1968 81.32
1969 81.97
1970 82.33
1971 83.36
1972 83.97
1973 84.27
1974 84.42
1975 84.49
1976 85.19
1977 85.64
1978 85.88
1979 85.89
1980 85.67
1981 86.50
1982 86.98
1983 87.18
1984 87.21
1985 87.14
1986 87.36
1987 87.44
1988 87.35
1989 86.94
1990 86.10
1991 86.39
1992 86.48
1993 86.39
1994 86.24
1995 86.18
1996 84.97
1997 83.47
1998 81.76
1999 79.84
2000 77.71
2001 75.38
2002 72.89
2003 70.32
2004 67.75
2005 65.25
2006 63.54
2007 61.86
2008 60.21
2009 58.60
2010 57.02
2011 55.35
2012 53.71
2013 52.17
2014 50.76
2015 49.53
2016 48.34
2017 47.37
2018 46.57
2019 45.84
2020 45.14

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