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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Kazakhstan was 58.85 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 79.40 in 1966 and 44.65 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 72.30
1961 74.48
1962 76.36
1963 77.81
1964 78.74
1965 79.08
1966 79.40
1967 78.96
1968 77.92
1969 76.62
1970 75.27
1971 73.38
1972 71.87
1973 70.56
1974 69.11
1975 67.42
1976 66.47
1977 65.27
1978 64.07
1979 63.15
1980 62.58
1981 61.76
1982 61.23
1983 60.94
1984 60.72
1985 60.46
1986 60.18
1987 59.94
1988 59.76
1989 59.63
1990 59.48
1991 59.81
1992 59.85
1993 59.62
1994 59.15
1995 58.45
1996 57.31
1997 56.02
1998 54.69
1999 53.43
2000 52.36
2001 51.17
2002 50.23
2003 49.38
2004 48.46
2005 47.44
2006 46.77
2007 46.00
2008 45.27
2009 44.77
2010 44.65
2011 45.40
2012 46.34
2013 47.48
2014 48.81
2015 50.28
2016 52.04
2017 53.97
2018 55.89
2019 57.56
2020 58.85

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