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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Bulgaria was 56.61 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 56.61 in 2020 and 44.86 in 2005.

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 50.76
1961 50.48
1962 50.01
1963 49.43
1964 48.90
1965 48.50
1966 48.28
1967 48.13
1968 48.05
1969 48.04
1970 48.10
1971 48.32
1972 48.56
1973 48.84
1974 49.17
1975 49.55
1976 50.14
1977 50.75
1978 51.27
1979 51.55
1980 51.51
1981 51.32
1982 50.76
1983 50.05
1984 49.48
1985 49.20
1986 49.20
1987 49.55
1988 50.04
1989 50.36
1990 50.36
1991 50.61
1992 50.48
1993 50.07
1994 49.64
1995 49.29
1996 48.96
1997 48.72
1998 48.49
1999 48.14
2000 47.61
2001 47.12
2002 46.56
2003 45.94
2004 45.35
2005 44.86
2006 44.91
2007 44.98
2008 45.16
2009 45.53
2010 46.15
2011 47.22
2012 48.40
2013 49.67
2014 50.96
2015 52.19
2016 53.25
2017 54.33
2018 55.32
2019 56.10
2020 56.61

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