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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Japan was 69.05 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 69.05 in 2020 and 43.30 in 1992.

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 55.97
1961 54.17
1962 52.24
1963 50.30
1964 48.56
1965 47.13
1966 46.29
1967 45.58
1968 45.08
1969 44.86
1970 44.91
1971 45.10
1972 45.59
1973 46.26
1974 46.87
1975 47.30
1976 47.95
1977 48.20
1978 48.20
1979 48.15
1980 48.15
1981 47.72
1982 47.54
1983 47.41
1984 47.10
1985 46.53
1986 46.11
1987 45.42
1988 44.62
1989 43.95
1990 43.56
1991 43.33
1992 43.30
1993 43.45
1994 43.69
1995 43.98
1996 44.36
1997 44.84
1998 45.38
1999 45.95
2000 46.56
2001 47.25
2002 47.92
2003 48.63
2004 49.42
2005 50.34
2006 51.21
2007 52.17
2008 53.25
2009 54.48
2010 55.89
2011 57.39
2012 59.03
2013 60.75
2014 62.42
2015 63.96
2016 65.31
2017 66.46
2018 67.43
2019 68.28
2020 69.05

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