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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Serbia was 52.50 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 57.37 in 1960 and 47.22 in 2010.

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 57.37
1961 56.94
1962 56.56
1963 56.07
1964 55.33
1965 54.33
1966 53.76
1967 52.82
1968 51.73
1969 50.86
1970 50.35
1971 50.19
1972 50.32
1973 50.64
1974 50.96
1975 51.15
1976 51.41
1977 51.58
1978 51.64
1979 51.56
1980 51.32
1981 51.06
1982 50.61
1983 50.07
1984 49.64
1985 49.39
1986 49.37
1987 49.52
1988 49.75
1989 49.94
1990 50.06
1991 50.32
1992 50.44
1993 50.46
1994 50.43
1995 50.39
1996 50.42
1997 50.62
1998 50.95
1999 51.30
2000 51.59
2001 51.49
2002 51.23
2003 50.81
2004 50.22
2005 49.51
2006 49.01
2007 48.39
2008 47.79
2009 47.37
2010 47.22
2011 47.30
2012 47.61
2013 48.11
2014 48.76
2015 49.52
2016 50.15
2017 50.88
2018 51.60
2019 52.16
2020 52.50

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