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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Moldova was 22.18 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 57.26 in 1965 and a minimum value of 21.29 in 2015.

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.

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Year Value
1960 51.24
1961 52.68
1962 54.29
1963 55.82
1964 56.88
1965 57.26
1966 57.07
1967 56.31
1968 55.07
1969 53.63
1970 52.17
1971 50.22
1972 48.66
1973 47.39
1974 46.17
1975 44.89
1976 44.18
1977 43.16
1978 42.06
1979 41.21
1980 40.80
1981 40.58
1982 40.74
1983 41.10
1984 41.45
1985 41.71
1986 42.29
1987 42.87
1988 43.34
1989 43.65
1990 43.76
1991 43.84
1992 43.57
1993 43.00
1994 42.23
1995 41.32
1996 40.16
1997 39.04
1998 37.86
1999 36.51
2000 34.94
2001 33.15
2002 31.22
2003 29.25
2004 27.43
2005 25.88
2006 24.87
2007 24.05
2008 23.42
2009 22.92
2010 22.52
2011 22.10
2012 21.75
2013 21.49
2014 21.34
2015 21.29
2016 21.39
2017 21.58
2018 21.82
2019 22.04
2020 22.18

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

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population