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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Israel was 67.34 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 71.63 in 1982 and 60.28 in 2008.

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 69.87
1961 70.02
1962 70.22
1963 70.24
1964 69.86
1965 69.04
1966 68.28
1967 67.13
1968 65.89
1969 64.98
1970 64.62
1971 64.62
1972 65.11
1973 65.90
1974 66.71
1975 67.38
1976 68.58
1977 69.54
1978 70.31
1979 70.95
1980 71.48
1981 71.61
1982 71.63
1983 71.52
1984 71.27
1985 70.87
1986 70.23
1987 69.56
1988 68.83
1989 68.02
1990 67.17
1991 66.38
1992 65.51
1993 64.63
1994 63.88
1995 63.31
1996 62.73
1997 62.32
1998 62.05
1999 61.82
2000 61.57
2001 61.49
2002 61.32
2003 61.13
2004 61.00
2005 60.96
2006 60.59
2007 60.37
2008 60.28
2009 60.34
2010 60.54
2011 61.16
2012 61.86
2013 62.62
2014 63.40
2015 64.17
2016 65.01
2017 65.76
2018 66.40
2019 66.93
2020 67.34

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