Czech Republic - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Czech Republic was 56.00 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 58.65 in 1980 and 40.40 in 2005.

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 54.06
1961 53.53
1962 52.94
1963 52.30
1964 51.61
1965 50.90
1966 50.72
1967 50.38
1968 50.03
1969 49.87
1970 50.03
1971 50.35
1972 51.03
1973 51.97
1974 52.99
1975 53.95
1976 55.45
1977 56.79
1978 57.87
1979 58.53
1980 58.65
1981 58.43
1982 57.54
1983 56.30
1984 55.15
1985 54.36
1986 53.60
1987 53.37
1988 53.31
1989 52.94
1990 52.06
1991 51.58
1992 50.53
1993 49.17
1994 47.87
1995 46.77
1996 46.00
1997 45.32
1998 44.69
1999 44.04
2000 43.32
2001 42.48
2002 41.80
2003 41.23
2004 40.75
2005 40.40
2006 40.52
2007 40.67
2008 40.93
2009 41.44
2010 42.21
2011 43.44
2012 44.81
2013 46.32
2014 47.89
2015 49.50
2016 50.89
2017 52.40
2018 53.86
2019 55.10
2020 56.00

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