Pillar
Socio-economic overview
Sub-pillar
Demographics
Portal Indicator name
Age dependency ratio
Metrics
Age dependency ratio
Output type
%
Input metric (short definition)
People younger than 15 or older than 64 to the working-age population
Aggregration
Weighted average
Periodicity
Annual
Long 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.
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.
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.
License
CC BY-4.0
Source
World Bank
Regional aggregrational method
n/a
Regional aggregrational calculation
n/a
Data Source