Macao SAR, China - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Macao SAR, China was 35.73 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 98.21 in 1965 and 24.64 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 87.90
1961 90.15
1962 92.95
1963 96.03
1964 98.17
1965 98.21
1966 96.79
1967 92.63
1968 86.83
1969 80.80
1970 75.15
1971 68.24
1972 62.63
1973 58.00
1974 53.90
1975 50.18
1976 48.10
1977 46.13
1978 44.70
1979 44.42
1980 45.44
1981 44.11
1982 44.12
1983 44.73
1984 45.05
1985 44.81
1986 46.19
1987 46.52
1988 46.42
1989 46.59
1990 47.14
1991 47.58
1992 48.17
1993 48.70
1994 48.82
1995 48.42
1996 47.81
1997 47.01
1998 46.01
1999 44.81
2000 43.33
2001 41.24
2002 38.83
2003 36.30
2004 33.90
2005 31.78
2006 29.70
2007 27.94
2008 26.51
2009 25.41
2010 24.64
2011 24.64
2012 24.82
2013 25.24
2014 25.94
2015 26.91
2016 28.36
2017 30.00
2018 31.82
2019 33.75
2020 35.73

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