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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Georgia was 54.98 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 64.35 in 1966 and 47.48 in 2010.

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 59.35
1961 60.58
1962 61.75
1963 62.77
1964 63.54
1965 63.99
1966 64.35
1967 64.35
1968 64.00
1969 63.40
1970 62.60
1971 61.57
1972 60.56
1973 59.52
1974 58.46
1975 57.38
1976 56.60
1977 55.79
1978 54.94
1979 54.09
1980 53.30
1981 52.61
1982 51.97
1983 51.45
1984 51.07
1985 50.85
1986 50.95
1987 51.09
1988 51.30
1989 51.60
1990 51.91
1991 52.48
1992 52.93
1993 52.98
1994 52.44
1995 51.39
1996 51.70
1997 51.68
1998 51.43
1999 51.12
2000 50.95
2001 50.93
2002 50.89
2003 50.83
2004 50.68
2005 50.40
2006 49.83
2007 49.12
2008 48.40
2009 47.82
2010 47.48
2011 47.68
2012 48.01
2013 48.50
2014 49.15
2015 49.96
2016 50.94
2017 51.98
2018 53.05
2019 54.07
2020 54.98

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