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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Croatia was 55.75 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 55.75 in 2020 and 45.70 in 1990.

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 52.53
1961 52.53
1962 52.30
1963 51.87
1964 51.33
1965 50.74
1966 50.39
1967 49.86
1968 49.26
1969 48.72
1970 48.36
1971 48.22
1972 48.32
1973 48.56
1974 48.77
1975 48.85
1976 49.06
1977 49.08
1978 48.96
1979 48.75
1980 48.50
1981 47.98
1982 47.42
1983 46.87
1984 46.36
1985 45.91
1986 45.87
1987 45.82
1988 45.78
1989 45.75
1990 45.70
1991 46.02
1992 46.35
1993 46.66
1994 46.98
1995 47.34
1996 47.56
1997 47.93
1998 48.37
1999 48.75
2000 49.00
2001 49.47
2002 49.60
2003 49.50
2004 49.34
2005 49.21
2006 48.94
2007 48.89
2008 49.00
2009 49.13
2010 49.26
2011 49.88
2012 50.23
2013 50.39
2014 50.60
2015 51.03
2016 51.62
2017 52.58
2018 53.75
2019 54.85
2020 55.75

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