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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Hungary was 52.84 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 55.53 in 1981 and 44.83 in 2010.

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 52.25
1961 51.88
1962 51.71
1963 51.59
1964 51.32
1965 50.85
1966 50.24
1967 49.66
1968 49.08
1969 48.49
1970 47.94
1971 48.09
1972 47.98
1973 47.88
1974 48.13
1975 48.90
1976 49.94
1977 51.61
1978 53.49
1979 54.87
1980 55.31
1981 55.53
1982 54.59
1983 53.03
1984 51.70
1985 51.03
1986 50.44
1987 50.71
1988 51.35
1989 51.63
1990 51.22
1991 51.23
1992 50.52
1993 49.43
1994 48.46
1995 47.81
1996 47.52
1997 47.37
1998 47.31
1999 47.17
2000 46.90
2001 46.52
2002 46.19
2003 45.86
2004 45.53
2005 45.21
2006 45.31
2007 45.29
2008 45.16
2009 44.99
2010 44.83
2011 45.07
2012 45.32
2013 45.65
2014 46.16
2015 46.88
2016 47.87
2017 49.14
2018 50.53
2019 51.81
2020 52.84

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