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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Estonia was 58.41 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 58.41 in 2020 and 46.87 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 50.71
1961 51.08
1962 51.25
1963 51.22
1964 51.10
1965 50.96
1966 51.02
1967 51.02
1968 51.01
1969 51.01
1970 51.06
1971 51.19
1972 51.34
1973 51.48
1974 51.54
1975 51.50
1976 51.82
1977 51.98
1978 52.02
1979 51.97
1980 51.83
1981 51.56
1982 51.25
1983 50.94
1984 50.66
1985 50.45
1986 50.56
1987 50.73
1988 50.94
1989 51.12
1990 51.16
1991 51.73
1992 52.06
1993 52.16
1994 52.12
1995 52.02
1996 51.20
1997 50.46
1998 49.77
1999 49.08
2000 48.37
2001 48.04
2002 47.74
2003 47.43
2004 47.13
2005 46.87
2006 47.06
2007 47.24
2008 47.49
2009 47.90
2010 48.49
2011 49.43
2012 50.41
2013 51.44
2014 52.55
2015 53.73
2016 54.29
2017 55.12
2018 56.21
2019 57.37
2020 58.41

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