Hong Kong SAR, China - Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Hong Kong SAR, China was 26.32 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 26.32 in 2020 and a minimum value of 4.82 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 4.82
1961 4.97
1962 5.10
1963 5.23
1964 5.34
1965 5.45
1966 5.73
1967 6.00
1968 6.26
1969 6.53
1970 6.84
1971 7.19
1972 7.56
1973 7.93
1974 8.30
1975 8.67
1976 8.78
1977 8.89
1978 9.02
1979 9.19
1980 9.39
1981 9.66
1982 9.94
1983 10.20
1984 10.46
1985 10.72
1986 11.06
1987 11.42
1988 11.79
1989 12.17
1990 12.56
1991 12.83
1992 13.11
1993 13.42
1994 13.74
1995 14.08
1996 14.35
1997 14.60
1998 14.83
1999 15.05
2000 15.27
2001 15.61
2002 15.96
2003 16.28
2004 16.53
2005 16.68
2006 16.79
2007 16.80
2008 16.80
2009 16.92
2010 17.23
2011 17.63
2012 18.20
2013 18.93
2014 19.74
2015 20.62
2016 21.56
2017 22.58
2018 23.69
2019 24.94
2020 26.32

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