Argentina - Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Argentina was 17.71 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 17.71 in 2020 and a minimum value of 8.72 in 1960.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, old, is the ratio of older dependents--people 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 8.72
1961 8.95
1962 9.16
1963 9.36
1964 9.56
1965 9.77
1966 10.01
1967 10.25
1968 10.48
1969 10.70
1970 10.92
1971 11.16
1972 11.39
1973 11.60
1974 11.81
1975 12.00
1976 12.27
1977 12.53
1978 12.77
1979 13.00
1980 13.21
1981 13.41
1982 13.59
1983 13.75
1984 13.90
1985 14.05
1986 14.23
1987 14.40
1988 14.56
1989 14.69
1990 14.80
1991 14.98
1992 15.13
1993 15.26
1994 15.36
1995 15.44
1996 15.55
1997 15.63
1998 15.70
1999 15.73
2000 15.74
2001 15.77
2002 15.78
2003 15.77
2004 15.75
2005 15.74
2006 15.78
2007 15.82
2008 15.85
2009 15.91
2010 15.99
2011 16.12
2012 16.27
2013 16.42
2014 16.58
2015 16.75
2016 16.95
2017 17.15
2018 17.34
2019 17.52
2020 17.71

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