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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Romania was 23.79 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 44.91 in 1960 and a minimum value of 22.34 in 2007.

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 44.91
1961 44.71
1962 44.05
1963 43.07
1964 42.11
1965 41.41
1966 40.36
1967 40.06
1968 40.13
1969 40.04
1970 39.55
1971 40.11
1972 39.71
1973 38.91
1974 38.52
1975 38.86
1976 38.91
1977 39.92
1978 41.36
1979 42.39
1980 42.55
1981 42.64
1982 41.80
1983 40.40
1984 39.13
1985 38.31
1986 37.40
1987 37.09
1988 37.07
1989 36.82
1990 36.07
1991 35.79
1992 34.73
1993 33.24
1994 31.89
1995 30.95
1996 29.65
1997 29.01
1998 28.73
1999 28.27
2000 27.41
2001 26.83
2002 25.80
2003 24.54
2004 23.47
2005 22.80
2006 22.36
2007 22.34
2008 22.58
2009 22.85
2010 23.01
2011 23.15
2012 23.12
2013 22.99
2014 22.92
2015 23.00
2016 22.97
2017 23.17
2018 23.49
2019 23.73
2020 23.79

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