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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Indonesia was 47.49 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 87.33 in 1971 and 47.49 in 2020.

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 76.98
1961 78.58
1962 80.05
1963 81.39
1964 82.60
1965 83.65
1966 84.82
1967 85.83
1968 86.59
1969 87.01
1970 87.05
1971 87.33
1972 87.17
1973 86.67
1974 85.97
1975 85.16
1976 84.56
1977 83.82
1978 82.94
1979 81.90
1980 80.71
1981 79.69
1982 78.54
1983 77.29
1984 75.92
1985 74.46
1986 73.22
1987 71.80
1988 70.28
1989 68.76
1990 67.29
1991 65.93
1992 64.68
1993 63.46
1994 62.18
1995 60.82
1996 59.66
1997 58.39
1998 57.07
1999 55.84
2000 54.78
2001 54.35
2002 54.01
2003 53.71
2004 53.42
2005 53.10
2006 52.41
2007 51.89
2008 51.51
2009 51.24
2010 51.04
2011 50.53
2012 50.13
2013 49.77
2014 49.36
2015 48.89
2016 48.71
2017 48.36
2018 47.95
2019 47.64
2020 47.49

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