Azerbaijan - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Azerbaijan was 33.72 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 89.26 in 1967 and a minimum value of 31.44 in 2012.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, young, is the ratio of younger dependents--people younger than 15--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 71.77
1961 75.44
1962 79.24
1963 82.76
1964 85.50
1965 87.17
1966 88.92
1967 89.26
1968 88.56
1969 87.37
1970 85.93
1971 83.83
1972 81.73
1973 79.42
1974 76.66
1975 73.46
1976 70.41
1977 67.13
1978 63.81
1979 60.76
1980 58.13
1981 56.07
1982 54.42
1983 53.16
1984 52.24
1985 51.63
1986 51.75
1987 52.09
1988 52.52
1989 52.98
1990 53.42
1991 54.16
1992 54.70
1993 55.04
1994 55.17
1995 55.04
1996 54.47
1997 53.62
1998 52.47
1999 51.06
2000 49.44
2001 47.33
2002 45.27
2003 43.22
2004 41.13
2005 39.04
2006 37.37
2007 35.70
2008 34.15
2009 32.91
2010 32.04
2011 31.58
2012 31.44
2013 31.57
2014 31.80
2015 32.04
2016 32.58
2017 32.93
2018 33.18
2019 33.44
2020 33.72

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