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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Malta was 55.52 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 86.48 in 1960 and 43.74 in 2008.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 86.48
1961 84.23
1962 80.86
1963 76.79
1964 72.78
1965 69.25
1966 66.96
1967 64.72
1968 62.64
1969 60.87
1970 59.52
1971 57.73
1972 56.74
1973 56.18
1974 55.57
1975 54.69
1976 54.13
1977 53.11
1978 51.93
1979 51.06
1980 50.67
1981 50.67
1982 50.87
1983 51.13
1984 51.27
1985 51.23
1986 51.41
1987 51.54
1988 51.58
1989 51.51
1990 51.32
1991 51.25
1992 51.05
1993 50.78
1994 50.51
1995 50.27
1996 49.70
1997 49.20
1998 48.73
1999 48.21
2000 47.62
2001 47.20
2002 46.71
2003 46.18
2004 45.66
2005 45.19
2006 44.54
2007 44.01
2008 43.74
2009 43.82
2010 44.26
2011 44.95
2012 45.83
2013 46.92
2014 48.11
2015 49.30
2016 50.57
2017 51.78
2018 52.97
2019 54.19
2020 55.52

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