IDA blend - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in IDA blend was 73.12 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 91.66 in 1987 and 73.12 in 2020.

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 81.25
1961 82.35
1962 83.26
1963 84.03
1964 84.70
1965 85.29
1966 86.41
1967 87.33
1968 88.04
1969 88.58
1970 88.94
1971 89.61
1972 90.07
1973 90.36
1974 90.49
1975 90.49
1976 90.84
1977 90.96
1978 90.91
1979 90.79
1980 90.63
1981 90.98
1982 91.19
1983 91.29
1984 91.29
1985 91.18
1986 91.51
1987 91.66
1988 91.63
1989 91.42
1990 91.03
1991 91.10
1992 90.89
1993 90.46
1994 89.87
1995 89.15
1996 88.64
1997 87.98
1998 87.18
1999 86.25
2000 85.21
2001 84.59
2002 83.84
2003 82.98
2004 82.11
2005 81.26
2006 80.70
2007 80.12
2008 79.52
2009 78.89
2010 78.22
2011 77.83
2012 77.39
2013 76.89
2014 76.34
2015 75.76
2016 75.38
2017 74.91
2018 74.36
2019 73.76
2020 73.12

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