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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Brazil was 43.48 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 88.02 in 1964 and 43.38 in 2018.

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 86.28
1961 87.00
1962 87.60
1963 87.98
1964 88.02
1965 87.69
1966 87.64
1967 87.06
1968 86.14
1969 85.08
1970 83.98
1971 82.95
1972 81.88
1973 80.75
1974 79.51
1975 78.20
1976 77.04
1977 75.88
1978 74.72
1979 73.58
1980 72.47
1981 71.80
1982 71.05
1983 70.29
1984 69.52
1985 68.75
1986 68.21
1987 67.53
1988 66.76
1989 65.93
1990 65.07
1991 64.10
1992 63.19
1993 62.26
1994 61.21
1995 60.03
1996 58.95
1997 57.77
1998 56.56
1999 55.39
2000 54.29
2001 53.44
2002 52.58
2003 51.72
2004 50.89
2005 50.08
2006 49.24
2007 48.46
2008 47.72
2009 46.99
2010 46.29
2011 45.66
2012 45.08
2013 44.56
2014 44.11
2015 43.75
2016 43.58
2017 43.45
2018 43.38
2019 43.39
2020 43.48

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