Lower middle income | Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)
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. 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.
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The World Bank
Origin
Lower middle income
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63
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Lower middle income | Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)
1960 80.30270088
1961 81.29418765
1962 82.2471334
1963 83.19394548
1964 83.87708768
1965 84.22797838
1966 84.44792111
1967 84.54586235
1968 84.55051605
1969 84.48137156
1970 84.3316184
1971 84.17393054
1972 83.98743424
1973 83.74912898
1974 83.48982666
1975 83.19226902
1976 82.92017464
1977 82.62899418
1978 82.29042789
1979 82.00314187
1980 81.72684672
1981 81.4187575
1982 81.17342484
1983 81.00762215
1984 80.86876085
1985 80.69600405
1986 80.46042531
1987 80.1621797
1988 79.77309217
1989 79.32222809
1990 78.78177722
1991 78.19135122
1992 77.64357131
1993 77.08113102
1994 76.39215505
1995 75.54627634
1996 74.57420465
1997 73.52357032
1998 72.40948471
1999 71.28653552
2000 70.20976541
2001 69.19319217
2002 68.28096916
2003 67.41934337
2004 66.54292892
2005 65.68267213
2006 64.84996409
2007 64.04027055
2008 63.2837319
2009 62.58174246
2010 61.9166084
2011 61.3173836
2012 60.79419531
2013 60.31409778
2014 59.87658031
2015 59.47923173
2016 59.07165275
2017 58.64128981
2018 58.22598641
2019 57.82817191
2020 57.39342946
2021 56.91377954
2022 56.49185829
Lower middle income | Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)
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. 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.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Lower middle income
Records
63
Source