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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Bahrain was 26.48 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 94.97 in 1965 and 26.48 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 79.48
1961 83.03
1962 86.00
1963 89.01
1964 92.21
1965 94.97
1966 93.35
1967 92.03
1968 91.10
1969 90.40
1970 89.76
1971 86.67
1972 82.67
1973 78.52
1974 74.94
1975 72.19
1976 68.11
1977 64.83
1978 62.20
1979 59.92
1980 57.82
1981 57.12
1982 56.77
1983 56.67
1984 56.69
1985 56.71
1986 56.47
1987 55.88
1988 55.20
1989 54.47
1990 53.55
1991 53.11
1992 52.19
1993 50.97
1994 49.65
1995 48.47
1996 48.23
1997 47.88
1998 47.76
1999 47.96
2000 48.35
2001 45.89
2002 43.66
2003 41.76
2004 40.15
2005 38.74
2006 35.81
2007 33.45
2008 31.59
2009 30.09
2010 28.85
2011 29.03
2012 29.21
2013 29.48
2014 29.82
2015 30.16
2016 29.42
2017 28.56
2018 27.68
2019 26.96
2020 26.48

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