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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Romania was 29.47 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 29.47 in 2020 and a minimum value of 10.62 in 1960.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, old, is the ratio of older dependents--people 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 10.62
1961 10.94
1962 11.27
1963 11.59
1964 11.88
1965 12.14
1966 12.33
1967 12.47
1968 12.59
1969 12.73
1970 12.90
1971 13.18
1972 13.46
1973 13.75
1974 14.07
1975 14.43
1976 14.89
1977 15.41
1978 15.89
1979 16.17
1980 16.17
1981 16.02
1982 15.61
1983 15.09
1984 14.69
1985 14.50
1986 14.57
1987 14.80
1988 15.13
1989 15.48
1990 15.80
1991 16.28
1992 16.73
1993 17.15
1994 17.56
1995 17.94
1996 18.43
1997 18.89
1998 19.30
1999 19.70
2000 20.07
2001 20.60
2002 21.11
2003 21.56
2004 21.88
2005 22.06
2006 22.32
2007 22.46
2008 22.54
2009 22.65
2010 22.85
2011 23.15
2012 23.53
2013 23.98
2014 24.52
2015 25.13
2016 25.94
2017 26.82
2018 27.73
2019 28.63
2020 29.47

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