Bosnia and Herzegovina - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Bosnia and Herzegovina was 21.50 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 64.96 in 1961 and a minimum value of 21.30 in 2017.

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 64.87
1961 64.96
1962 64.76
1963 64.24
1964 63.43
1965 62.40
1966 62.08
1967 61.22
1968 60.01
1969 58.79
1970 57.72
1971 56.37
1972 55.39
1973 54.51
1974 53.43
1975 52.02
1976 50.60
1977 48.89
1978 47.05
1979 45.34
1980 43.89
1981 42.46
1982 41.30
1983 40.33
1984 39.39
1985 38.43
1986 37.63
1987 36.86
1988 36.15
1989 35.51
1990 34.89
1991 34.15
1992 33.49
1993 32.88
1994 32.36
1995 32.01
1996 31.60
1997 31.32
1998 31.10
1999 30.80
2000 30.32
2001 29.72
2002 28.81
2003 27.72
2004 26.65
2005 25.74
2006 24.72
2007 24.03
2008 23.53
2009 23.01
2010 22.38
2011 22.39
2012 22.17
2013 21.83
2014 21.63
2015 21.69
2016 21.32
2017 21.30
2018 21.47
2019 21.58
2020 21.50

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