Bosnia and Herzegovina - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Bosnia and Herzegovina was 48.01 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 71.01 in 1961 and 42.00 in 2014.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 70.74
1961 71.01
1962 71.00
1963 70.66
1964 70.04
1965 69.17
1966 69.04
1967 68.31
1968 67.21
1969 66.10
1970 65.15
1971 64.07
1972 63.34
1973 62.70
1974 61.80
1975 60.51
1976 59.26
1977 57.69
1978 55.94
1979 54.25
1980 52.74
1981 51.15
1982 49.78
1983 48.59
1984 47.48
1985 46.42
1986 45.75
1987 45.19
1988 44.78
1989 44.53
1990 44.39
1991 44.32
1992 44.40
1993 44.60
1994 44.92
1995 45.42
1996 45.58
1997 45.80
1998 46.07
1999 46.29
2000 46.39
2001 46.58
2002 46.55
2003 46.29
2004 45.89
2005 45.39
2006 44.62
2007 43.95
2008 43.35
2009 42.77
2010 42.24
2011 42.34
2012 42.25
2013 42.04
2014 42.00
2015 42.29
2016 42.86
2017 43.98
2018 45.43
2019 46.83
2020 48.01

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