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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Turkey was 35.69 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 79.20 in 1964 and a minimum value of 35.69 in 2020.

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 76.31
1961 77.10
1962 78.01
1963 78.82
1964 79.20
1965 79.02
1966 79.16
1967 78.73
1968 77.93
1969 77.03
1970 76.19
1971 75.75
1972 75.32
1973 74.87
1974 74.37
1975 73.81
1976 73.56
1977 73.15
1978 72.61
1979 71.97
1980 71.25
1981 70.44
1982 69.52
1983 68.51
1984 67.39
1985 66.16
1986 65.18
1987 64.03
1988 62.75
1989 61.41
1990 60.06
1991 58.72
1992 57.39
1993 56.06
1994 54.75
1995 53.48
1996 52.36
1997 51.30
1998 50.31
1999 49.33
2000 48.34
2001 47.56
2002 46.69
2003 45.80
2004 44.95
2005 44.19
2006 43.40
2007 42.71
2008 42.08
2009 41.45
2010 40.83
2011 40.33
2012 39.85
2013 39.39
2014 38.94
2015 38.48
2016 38.01
2017 37.46
2018 36.86
2019 36.26
2020 35.69

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