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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Russia was 27.77 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 48.51 in 1961 and a minimum value of 20.49 in 2008.

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 47.79
1961 48.51
1962 48.48
1963 47.85
1964 46.99
1965 46.07
1966 44.89
1967 43.63
1968 42.33
1969 40.99
1970 39.68
1971 38.18
1972 36.94
1973 35.87
1974 34.88
1975 33.90
1976 33.49
1977 32.87
1978 32.22
1979 31.78
1980 31.64
1981 31.61
1982 31.90
1983 32.41
1984 32.92
1985 33.30
1986 33.78
1987 34.11
1988 34.30
1989 34.36
1990 34.28
1991 34.33
1992 34.05
1993 33.54
1994 32.89
1995 32.16
1996 30.90
1997 29.82
1998 28.79
1999 27.63
2000 26.32
2001 25.36
2002 24.24
2003 23.10
2004 22.11
2005 21.37
2006 20.94
2007 20.63
2008 20.49
2009 20.53
2010 20.74
2011 21.14
2012 21.79
2013 22.61
2014 23.45
2015 24.26
2016 25.12
2017 25.89
2018 26.57
2019 27.20
2020 27.77

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