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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Russia was 23.45 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.45 in 2020 and a minimum value of 9.57 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.

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Year Value
1960 9.57
1961 9.78
1962 9.95
1963 10.10
1964 10.25
1965 10.44
1966 10.66
1967 10.90
1968 11.15
1969 11.41
1970 11.68
1971 12.00
1972 12.29
1973 12.59
1974 12.92
1975 13.29
1976 13.73
1977 14.20
1978 14.63
1979 14.94
1980 15.09
1981 15.13
1982 15.02
1983 14.85
1984 14.68
1985 14.58
1986 14.62
1987 14.68
1988 14.80
1989 15.04
1990 15.43
1991 16.00
1992 16.69
1993 17.40
1994 17.95
1995 18.26
1996 18.41
1997 18.30
1998 18.08
1999 17.93
2000 17.95
2001 18.31
2002 18.81
2003 19.30
2004 19.56
2005 19.47
2006 19.39
2007 19.07
2008 18.67
2009 18.36
2010 18.21
2011 18.27
2012 18.42
2013 18.69
2014 19.04
2015 19.48
2016 20.17
2017 20.94
2018 21.77
2019 22.61
2020 23.45

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