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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Chile was 45.95 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 77.46 in 1964 and 45.16 in 2014.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 76.06
1961 76.48
1962 76.96
1963 77.36
1964 77.46
1965 77.18
1966 77.04
1967 76.49
1968 75.65
1969 74.70
1970 73.74
1971 72.69
1972 71.64
1973 70.56
1974 69.41
1975 68.19
1976 67.00
1977 65.82
1978 64.64
1979 63.47
1980 62.32
1981 61.35
1982 60.37
1983 59.44
1984 58.64
1985 58.00
1986 57.40
1987 56.99
1988 56.72
1989 56.52
1990 56.37
1991 56.38
1992 56.36
1993 56.30
1994 56.19
1995 56.01
1996 55.81
1997 55.46
1998 55.00
1999 54.44
2000 53.80
2001 52.95
2002 52.11
2003 51.26
2004 50.38
2005 49.47
2006 48.63
2007 47.81
2008 47.05
2009 46.39
2010 45.87
2011 45.55
2012 45.31
2013 45.17
2014 45.16
2015 45.27
2016 45.30
2017 45.38
2018 45.53
2019 45.72
2020 45.95

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