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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Slovak Republic was 24.65 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 24.65 in 2020 and a minimum value of 10.97 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 10.97
1961 11.29
1962 11.67
1963 12.08
1964 12.48
1965 12.87
1966 13.25
1967 13.60
1968 13.92
1969 14.22
1970 14.51
1971 14.77
1972 14.99
1973 15.18
1974 15.38
1975 15.60
1976 15.91
1977 16.25
1978 16.55
1979 16.67
1980 16.55
1981 16.26
1982 15.74
1983 15.15
1984 14.70
1985 14.50
1986 14.65
1987 14.98
1988 15.38
1989 15.71
1990 15.90
1991 16.12
1992 16.20
1993 16.20
1994 16.17
1995 16.13
1996 16.25
1997 16.34
1998 16.41
1999 16.42
2000 16.37
2001 16.39
2002 16.37
2003 16.32
2004 16.28
2005 16.27
2006 16.40
2007 16.56
2008 16.75
2009 16.97
2010 17.24
2011 17.66
2012 18.10
2013 18.60
2014 19.18
2015 19.87
2016 20.73
2017 21.67
2018 22.68
2019 23.68
2020 24.65

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