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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Belarus was 23.19 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.19 in 2020 and a minimum value of 13.30 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 13.30
1961 13.35
1962 13.34
1963 13.31
1964 13.31
1965 13.37
1966 13.57
1967 13.81
1968 14.05
1969 14.27
1970 14.44
1971 14.66
1972 14.84
1973 15.01
1974 15.21
1975 15.45
1976 15.71
1977 15.98
1978 16.19
1979 16.26
1980 16.18
1981 15.97
1982 15.63
1983 15.26
1984 14.97
1985 14.84
1986 14.90
1987 15.06
1988 15.32
1989 15.65
1990 16.07
1991 16.65
1992 17.28
1993 17.92
1994 18.46
1995 18.86
1996 19.24
1997 19.45
1998 19.55
1999 19.66
2000 19.82
2001 20.20
2002 20.63
2003 21.01
2004 21.20
2005 21.13
2006 21.03
2007 20.71
2008 20.27
2009 19.88
2010 19.63
2011 19.66
2012 19.81
2013 20.05
2014 20.33
2015 20.63
2016 20.87
2017 21.21
2018 21.74
2019 22.43
2020 23.19

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