Iran - Age dependency ratio

Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Iran was 45.58 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 97.11 in 1988 and 40.98 in 2012.

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.

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Year Value
1960 87.78
1961 89.40
1962 91.05
1963 92.45
1964 93.24
1965 93.29
1966 93.66
1967 93.27
1968 92.36
1969 91.26
1970 90.17
1971 89.64
1972 89.00
1973 88.32
1974 87.65
1975 87.04
1976 86.83
1977 86.67
1978 86.61
1979 86.72
1980 87.13
1981 88.63
1982 90.18
1983 91.71
1984 93.05
1985 94.10
1986 95.74
1987 96.76
1988 97.11
1989 96.71
1990 95.48
1991 94.07
1992 91.93
1993 89.20
1994 86.09
1995 82.72
1996 78.41
1997 74.29
1998 70.24
1999 66.20
2000 62.19
2001 58.43
2002 54.84
2003 51.56
2004 48.70
2005 46.32
2006 44.66
2007 43.30
2008 42.29
2009 41.60
2010 41.23
2011 40.98
2012 40.98
2013 41.20
2014 41.63
2015 42.22
2016 42.75
2017 43.44
2018 44.22
2019 44.96
2020 45.58

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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Iran was 9.56 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 9.56 in 2020 and a minimum value of 5.51 in 1983.

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 7.54
1961 7.45
1962 7.33
1963 7.18
1964 7.00
1965 6.81
1966 6.75
1967 6.67
1968 6.56
1969 6.43
1970 6.29
1971 6.26
1972 6.22
1973 6.16
1974 6.07
1975 5.95
1976 5.90
1977 5.83
1978 5.74
1979 5.64
1980 5.54
1981 5.54
1982 5.53
1983 5.51
1984 5.52
1985 5.58
1986 5.75
1987 5.94
1988 6.14
1989 6.30
1990 6.43
1991 6.58
1992 6.70
1993 6.80
1994 6.88
1995 6.96
1996 7.02
1997 7.06
1998 7.09
1999 7.11
2000 7.10
2001 7.09
2002 7.07
2003 7.04
2004 7.00
2005 6.97
2006 6.99
2007 7.02
2008 7.07
2009 7.15
2010 7.27
2011 7.41
2012 7.57
2013 7.76
2014 7.99
2015 8.26
2016 8.44
2017 8.66
2018 8.92
2019 9.22
2020 9.56

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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Iran was 36.02 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 90.98 in 1988 and a minimum value of 33.40 in 2012.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 80.24
1961 81.95
1962 83.72
1963 85.27
1964 86.24
1965 86.48
1966 86.91
1967 86.61
1968 85.80
1969 84.84
1970 83.88
1971 83.37
1972 82.78
1973 82.16
1974 81.58
1975 81.09
1976 80.93
1977 80.85
1978 80.87
1979 81.09
1980 81.59
1981 83.08
1982 84.65
1983 86.19
1984 87.53
1985 88.53
1986 89.99
1987 90.82
1988 90.98
1989 90.40
1990 89.04
1991 87.49
1992 85.23
1993 82.41
1994 79.21
1995 75.76
1996 71.39
1997 67.22
1998 63.15
1999 59.09
2000 55.08
2001 51.34
2002 47.78
2003 44.52
2004 41.70
2005 39.35
2006 37.67
2007 36.29
2008 35.22
2009 34.45
2010 33.96
2011 33.57
2012 33.40
2013 33.44
2014 33.64
2015 33.96
2016 34.31
2017 34.78
2018 35.30
2019 35.74
2020 36.02

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population