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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Vietnam was 45.05 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 97.45 in 1968 and 41.92 in 2013.

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 81.34
1961 84.51
1962 87.65
1963 90.58
1964 93.03
1965 94.85
1966 96.30
1967 97.16
1968 97.45
1969 97.27
1970 96.71
1971 95.97
1972 94.92
1973 93.63
1974 92.16
1975 90.58
1976 89.86
1977 88.93
1978 87.87
1979 86.81
1980 85.81
1981 84.53
1982 83.40
1983 82.36
1984 81.31
1985 80.22
1986 79.34
1987 78.37
1988 77.35
1989 76.37
1990 75.44
1991 74.65
1992 73.86
1993 73.01
1994 71.97
1995 70.64
1996 69.30
1997 67.51
1998 65.43
1999 63.31
2000 61.27
2001 58.76
2002 56.65
2003 54.74
2004 52.78
2005 50.71
2006 49.08
2007 47.31
2008 45.58
2009 44.15
2010 43.10
2011 42.46
2012 42.06
2013 41.92
2014 41.99
2015 42.22
2016 42.58
2017 43.12
2018 43.78
2019 44.44
2020 45.05

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