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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Hungary was 30.82 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 30.82 in 2020 and a minimum value of 13.69 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 13.69
1961 14.04
1962 14.42
1963 14.82
1964 15.21
1965 15.57
1966 15.95
1967 16.28
1968 16.58
1969 16.86
1970 17.14
1971 17.49
1972 17.79
1973 18.10
1974 18.46
1975 18.90
1976 19.49
1977 20.17
1978 20.80
1979 21.16
1980 21.12
1981 20.82
1982 20.14
1983 19.31
1984 18.64
1985 18.30
1986 18.53
1987 19.00
1988 19.58
1989 20.07
1990 20.35
1991 20.71
1992 20.90
1993 20.97
1994 21.02
1995 21.08
1996 21.35
1997 21.63
1998 21.88
1999 22.07
2000 22.18
2001 22.36
2002 22.46
2003 22.52
2004 22.58
2005 22.68
2006 22.84
2007 23.01
2008 23.16
2009 23.25
2010 23.31
2011 23.72
2012 24.10
2013 24.50
2014 25.00
2015 25.66
2016 26.62
2017 27.71
2018 28.84
2019 29.90
2020 30.82

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