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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Afghanistan was 80.09 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 104.86 in 2000 and 80.09 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 81.62
1961 82.69
1962 83.29
1963 83.60
1964 83.85
1965 84.13
1966 85.34
1967 86.39
1968 87.29
1969 88.00
1970 88.53
1971 89.78
1972 90.71
1973 91.38
1974 91.80
1975 91.95
1976 92.99
1977 93.86
1978 94.51
1979 94.82
1980 94.61
1981 95.76
1982 96.72
1983 97.52
1984 98.28
1985 99.26
1986 100.04
1987 100.32
1988 100.42
1989 100.85
1990 102.19
1991 101.86
1992 101.57
1993 101.50
1994 101.36
1995 100.75
1996 101.78
1997 102.82
1998 103.65
1999 104.28
2000 104.86
2001 104.48
2002 103.67
2003 102.66
2004 101.56
2005 100.35
2006 100.97
2007 101.60
2008 102.08
2009 102.25
2010 102.05
2011 100.22
2012 97.93
2013 95.34
2014 92.65
2015 89.95
2016 87.94
2017 86.00
2018 84.08
2019 82.11
2020 80.09

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