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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Turkey was 49.08 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 86.22 in 1966 and 49.08 in 2020.

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.

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Year Value
1960 82.12
1961 83.13
1962 84.30
1963 85.37
1964 85.96
1965 85.94
1966 86.22
1967 85.88
1968 85.14
1969 84.29
1970 83.52
1971 83.24
1972 82.96
1973 82.67
1974 82.33
1975 81.94
1976 81.82
1977 81.54
1978 81.10
1979 80.50
1980 79.73
1981 78.80
1982 77.72
1983 76.51
1984 75.22
1985 73.87
1986 72.85
1987 71.67
1988 70.40
1989 69.09
1990 67.78
1991 66.55
1992 65.33
1993 64.15
1994 63.00
1995 61.92
1996 61.03
1997 60.23
1998 59.49
1999 58.74
2000 57.97
2001 57.36
2002 56.64
2003 55.87
2004 55.15
2005 54.51
2006 53.84
2007 53.27
2008 52.76
2009 52.26
2010 51.78
2011 51.42
2012 51.08
2013 50.79
2014 50.53
2015 50.31
2016 50.09
2017 49.83
2018 49.55
2019 49.29
2020 49.08

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