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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Myanmar was 46.46 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 85.92 in 1967 and 46.46 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.

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Year Value
1960 77.99
1961 79.56
1962 81.26
1963 82.88
1964 84.05
1965 84.67
1966 85.56
1967 85.92
1968 85.87
1969 85.62
1970 85.29
1971 85.45
1972 85.34
1973 85.05
1974 84.63
1975 84.13
1976 83.87
1977 83.51
1978 83.04
1979 82.41
1980 81.63
1981 81.16
1982 80.52
1983 79.71
1984 78.72
1985 77.55
1986 76.69
1987 75.54
1988 74.20
1989 72.78
1990 71.31
1991 70.05
1992 68.82
1993 67.57
1994 66.25
1995 64.88
1996 63.60
1997 62.33
1998 61.08
1999 59.88
2000 58.75
2001 58.11
2002 57.49
2003 56.91
2004 56.35
2005 55.79
2006 55.47
2007 55.08
2008 54.61
2009 54.08
2010 53.50
2011 52.63
2012 51.77
2013 50.91
2014 50.06
2015 49.22
2016 48.55
2017 47.95
2018 47.40
2019 46.90
2020 46.46

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