Lower middle income - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Lower middle income was 55.87 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 84.62 in 1967 and 55.87 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 79.01
1961 80.21
1962 81.43
1963 82.54
1964 83.34
1965 83.72
1966 84.40
1967 84.62
1968 84.51
1969 84.23
1970 83.87
1971 83.85
1972 83.70
1973 83.41
1974 82.99
1975 82.45
1976 82.36
1977 82.07
1978 81.64
1979 81.15
1980 80.65
1981 80.52
1982 80.32
1983 80.06
1984 79.70
1985 79.23
1986 79.13
1987 78.82
1988 78.34
1989 77.75
1990 77.09
1991 76.62
1992 76.03
1993 75.32
1994 74.46
1995 73.47
1996 72.61
1997 71.62
1998 70.53
1999 69.39
2000 68.24
2001 67.39
2002 66.51
2003 65.61
2004 64.72
2005 63.84
2006 63.12
2007 62.40
2008 61.70
2009 61.02
2010 60.34
2011 59.81
2012 59.25
2013 58.69
2014 58.16
2015 57.67
2016 57.28
2017 56.92
2018 56.58
2019 56.23
2020 55.87

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