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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Lithuania was 56.48 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 59.18 in 1970 and 47.14 in 2010.

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 54.00
1961 54.49
1962 54.96
1963 55.55
1964 56.22
1965 56.92
1966 57.46
1967 58.00
1968 58.48
1969 58.87
1970 59.18
1971 59.02
1972 58.82
1973 58.53
1974 58.04
1975 57.35
1976 56.78
1977 55.94
1978 54.95
1979 53.97
1980 53.08
1981 52.13
1982 51.31
1983 50.64
1984 50.09
1985 49.67
1986 49.66
1987 49.72
1988 49.84
1989 50.03
1990 50.25
1991 50.69
1992 51.10
1993 51.42
1994 51.60
1995 51.63
1996 51.85
1997 51.95
1998 51.91
1999 51.73
2000 51.40
2001 50.81
2002 50.26
2003 49.73
2004 49.21
2005 48.72
2006 48.41
2007 48.05
2008 47.68
2009 47.36
2010 47.14
2011 47.51
2012 47.97
2013 48.51
2014 49.14
2015 49.88
2016 50.63
2017 51.58
2018 52.88
2019 54.54
2020 56.48

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