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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Bulgaria was 22.99 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 39.34 in 1960 and a minimum value of 19.46 in 2008.

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 39.34
1961 38.89
1962 38.22
1963 37.44
1964 36.67
1965 36.00
1966 35.46
1967 34.99
1968 34.57
1969 34.19
1970 33.85
1971 33.66
1972 33.50
1973 33.38
1974 33.32
1975 33.30
1976 33.43
1977 33.56
1978 33.65
1979 33.66
1980 33.56
1981 33.47
1982 33.23
1983 32.89
1984 32.57
1985 32.30
1986 31.92
1987 31.69
1988 31.50
1989 31.16
1990 30.59
1991 30.16
1992 29.43
1993 28.51
1994 27.58
1995 26.74
1996 25.89
1997 25.16
1998 24.50
1999 23.83
2000 23.12
2001 22.32
2002 21.58
2003 20.88
2004 20.25
2005 19.72
2006 19.58
2007 19.48
2008 19.46
2009 19.54
2010 19.72
2011 20.11
2012 20.48
2013 20.86
2014 21.28
2015 21.72
2016 21.94
2017 22.29
2018 22.67
2019 22.92
2020 22.99

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