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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Romania was 53.26 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 58.73 in 1980 and 44.69 in 2006.

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 55.53
1961 55.66
1962 55.32
1963 54.65
1964 53.99
1965 53.55
1966 52.69
1967 52.53
1968 52.72
1969 52.77
1970 52.45
1971 53.29
1972 53.17
1973 52.66
1974 52.59
1975 53.29
1976 53.81
1977 55.32
1978 57.25
1979 58.55
1980 58.73
1981 58.65
1982 57.40
1983 55.50
1984 53.82
1985 52.81
1986 51.97
1987 51.89
1988 52.20
1989 52.30
1990 51.87
1991 52.07
1992 51.46
1993 50.40
1994 49.45
1995 48.89
1996 48.08
1997 47.90
1998 48.03
1999 47.97
2000 47.48
2001 47.43
2002 46.91
2003 46.10
2004 45.36
2005 44.86
2006 44.69
2007 44.80
2008 45.12
2009 45.50
2010 45.86
2011 46.31
2012 46.64
2013 46.97
2014 47.44
2015 48.13
2016 48.91
2017 50.00
2018 51.22
2019 52.36
2020 53.26

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