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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Georgia was 31.34 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 51.77 in 1966 and a minimum value of 26.48 in 2010.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, young, is the ratio of younger dependents--people younger than 15--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 45.58
1961 47.02
1962 48.44
1963 49.72
1964 50.74
1965 51.41
1966 51.77
1967 51.75
1968 51.39
1969 50.79
1970 50.02
1971 48.81
1972 47.66
1973 46.53
1974 45.36
1975 44.15
1976 43.13
1977 42.06
1978 40.97
1979 39.97
1980 39.13
1981 38.51
1982 38.04
1983 37.73
1984 37.54
1985 37.45
1986 37.54
1987 37.64
1988 37.76
1989 37.84
1990 37.76
1991 37.62
1992 37.31
1993 36.61
1994 35.46
1995 33.95
1996 33.63
1997 33.13
1998 32.53
1999 31.95
2000 31.43
2001 30.90
2002 30.26
2003 29.63
2004 29.07
2005 28.61
2006 27.93
2007 27.35
2008 26.92
2009 26.62
2010 26.48
2011 26.72
2012 27.02
2013 27.40
2014 27.87
2015 28.44
2016 29.06
2017 29.68
2018 30.30
2019 30.86
2020 31.34

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

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population