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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Slovak Republic was 22.96 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 50.94 in 1960 and a minimum value of 21.18 in 2012.

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 50.94
1961 50.71
1962 50.65
1963 50.56
1964 50.17
1965 49.35
1966 48.58
1967 47.41
1968 45.99
1969 44.61
1970 43.45
1971 42.44
1972 41.71
1973 41.21
1974 40.84
1975 40.54
1976 40.69
1977 40.81
1978 40.95
1979 41.12
1980 41.30
1981 41.40
1982 41.44
1983 41.44
1984 41.40
1985 41.35
1986 41.09
1987 40.89
1988 40.63
1989 40.16
1990 39.44
1991 38.74
1992 37.78
1993 36.65
1994 35.46
1995 34.27
1996 33.18
1997 32.05
1998 30.88
1999 29.72
2000 28.57
2001 27.36
2002 26.28
2003 25.30
2004 24.38
2005 23.51
2006 22.89
2007 22.33
2008 21.85
2009 21.49
2010 21.24
2011 21.20
2012 21.18
2013 21.21
2014 21.35
2015 21.58
2016 21.74
2017 22.04
2018 22.41
2019 22.73
2020 22.96

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