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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Iraq was 69.94 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 104.35 in 1979 and 69.94 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 80.39
1961 81.11
1962 83.51
1963 86.68
1964 89.25
1965 90.65
1966 92.58
1967 93.38
1968 93.55
1969 93.86
1970 94.64
1971 96.35
1972 97.90
1973 99.37
1974 100.72
1975 101.89
1976 102.70
1977 103.57
1978 104.24
1979 104.35
1980 103.79
1981 103.94
1982 103.45
1983 102.53
1984 101.50
1985 100.52
1986 100.14
1987 99.85
1988 99.55
1989 99.10
1990 98.49
1991 97.14
1992 95.64
1993 94.12
1994 92.74
1995 91.54
1996 90.33
1997 89.33
1998 88.44
1999 87.55
2000 86.59
2001 86.08
2002 85.42
2003 84.68
2004 83.92
2005 83.15
2006 83.09
2007 83.02
2008 82.87
2009 82.64
2010 82.37
2011 80.38
2012 78.53
2013 76.83
2014 75.23
2015 73.65
2016 73.17
2017 72.43
2018 71.56
2019 70.71
2020 69.94

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