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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Brunei was 38.68 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 100.05 in 1965 and 38.55 in 2019.

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 90.07
1961 92.16
1962 95.00
1963 97.85
1964 99.68
1965 100.05
1966 98.39
1967 95.60
1968 92.32
1969 89.29
1970 86.88
1971 84.59
1972 82.90
1973 81.56
1974 80.15
1975 78.55
1976 77.98
1977 76.60
1978 74.89
1979 73.22
1980 71.66
1981 71.08
1982 70.69
1983 70.36
1984 69.93
1985 69.32
1986 66.85
1987 64.51
1988 62.45
1989 60.75
1990 59.38
1991 58.77
1992 58.11
1993 57.43
1994 56.67
1995 55.74
1996 54.81
1997 53.61
1998 52.27
1999 50.82
2000 49.31
2001 48.38
2002 47.32
2003 46.30
2004 45.37
2005 44.48
2006 44.05
2007 43.43
2008 42.74
2009 42.11
2010 41.54
2011 40.75
2012 40.24
2013 39.90
2014 39.57
2015 39.20
2016 39.25
2017 39.01
2018 38.70
2019 38.55
2020 38.68

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