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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Croatia was 33.10 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 33.10 in 2020 and a minimum value of 10.57 in 1960.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, old, is the ratio of older dependents--people 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 10.57
1961 10.82
1962 11.10
1963 11.38
1964 11.66
1965 11.93
1966 12.34
1967 12.71
1968 13.07
1969 13.44
1970 13.85
1971 14.36
1972 14.89
1973 15.40
1974 15.88
1975 16.28
1976 16.65
1977 16.97
1978 17.20
1979 17.30
1980 17.23
1981 16.99
1982 16.59
1983 16.13
1984 15.76
1985 15.55
1986 15.64
1987 15.85
1988 16.16
1989 16.51
1990 16.87
1991 17.51
1992 18.16
1993 18.81
1994 19.48
1995 20.16
1996 20.83
1997 21.47
1998 22.08
1999 22.65
2000 23.19
2001 23.88
2002 24.53
2003 25.11
2004 25.52
2005 25.73
2006 25.93
2007 25.97
2008 25.94
2009 25.99
2010 26.21
2011 26.76
2012 27.34
2013 27.91
2014 28.47
2015 29.07
2016 29.74
2017 30.55
2018 31.43
2019 32.30
2020 33.10

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