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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Hungary was 22.02 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 38.56 in 1960 and a minimum value of 21.15 in 2014.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, young, is the ratio of younger dependents--people younger than 15--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 38.56
1961 37.84
1962 37.29
1963 36.77
1964 36.11
1965 35.28
1966 34.29
1967 33.37
1968 32.50
1969 31.64
1970 30.81
1971 30.60
1972 30.19
1973 29.78
1974 29.67
1975 30.00
1976 30.45
1977 31.44
1978 32.69
1979 33.71
1980 34.19
1981 34.71
1982 34.45
1983 33.72
1984 33.06
1985 32.73
1986 31.91
1987 31.71
1988 31.77
1989 31.56
1990 30.87
1991 30.52
1992 29.63
1993 28.46
1994 27.44
1995 26.73
1996 26.16
1997 25.74
1998 25.42
1999 25.10
2000 24.72
2001 24.16
2002 23.72
2003 23.34
2004 22.95
2005 22.53
2006 22.47
2007 22.28
2008 22.01
2009 21.73
2010 21.52
2011 21.35
2012 21.22
2013 21.16
2014 21.15
2015 21.22
2016 21.25
2017 21.44
2018 21.69
2019 21.91
2020 22.02

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