Lithuania - Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Lithuania was 32.26 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 32.26 in 2020 and a minimum value of 12.21 in 1960.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, old, is the ratio of older dependents--people 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 12.21
1961 12.56
1962 12.91
1963 13.27
1964 13.65
1965 14.06
1966 14.46
1967 14.85
1968 15.26
1969 15.69
1970 16.16
1971 16.60
1972 17.03
1973 17.42
1974 17.72
1975 17.90
1976 17.97
1977 17.95
1978 17.85
1979 17.66
1980 17.38
1981 17.05
1982 16.62
1983 16.17
1984 15.81
1985 15.59
1986 15.57
1987 15.66
1988 15.85
1989 16.08
1990 16.34
1991 16.81
1992 17.30
1993 17.78
1994 18.23
1995 18.63
1996 19.21
1997 19.74
1998 20.21
1999 20.65
2000 21.06
2001 21.62
2002 22.18
2003 22.73
2004 23.27
2005 23.77
2006 24.22
2007 24.60
2008 24.91
2009 25.18
2010 25.41
2011 25.91
2012 26.41
2013 26.91
2014 27.44
2015 28.01
2016 28.57
2017 29.26
2018 30.12
2019 31.15
2020 32.26

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