Middle income - Age dependency ratio

Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Middle income was 51.40 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 82.01 in 1966 and 51.04 in 2015.

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 77.52
1961 78.38
1962 79.50
1963 80.59
1964 81.27
1965 81.40
1966 82.01
1967 81.99
1968 81.57
1969 81.09
1970 80.67
1971 80.64
1972 80.50
1973 80.26
1974 79.84
1975 79.19
1976 78.63
1977 77.87
1978 76.92
1979 75.87
1980 74.77
1981 73.76
1982 72.78
1983 71.82
1984 70.88
1985 69.97
1986 69.49
1987 68.97
1988 68.44
1989 67.87
1990 67.27
1991 66.99
1992 66.46
1993 65.77
1994 65.03
1995 64.30
1996 63.37
1997 62.60
1998 61.86
1999 60.97
2000 59.88
2001 59.07
2002 58.05
2003 56.93
2004 55.87
2005 54.96
2006 54.23
2007 53.61
2008 53.09
2009 52.61
2010 52.17
2011 51.88
2012 51.59
2013 51.34
2014 51.15
2015 51.04
2016 51.07
2017 51.15
2018 51.26
2019 51.35
2020 51.40

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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Middle income was 12.17 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 12.17 in 2020 and a minimum value of 6.71 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 6.71
1961 6.80
1962 6.86
1963 6.89
1964 6.89
1965 6.87
1966 6.98
1967 7.06
1968 7.12
1969 7.17
1970 7.21
1971 7.31
1972 7.40
1973 7.47
1974 7.53
1975 7.59
1976 7.69
1977 7.79
1978 7.86
1979 7.90
1980 7.92
1981 7.96
1982 7.96
1983 7.95
1984 7.93
1985 7.92
1986 7.95
1987 7.98
1988 8.01
1989 8.04
1990 8.08
1991 8.18
1992 8.29
1993 8.39
1994 8.48
1995 8.55
1996 8.66
1997 8.74
1998 8.80
1999 8.86
2000 8.92
2001 9.01
2002 9.10
2003 9.17
2004 9.22
2005 9.25
2006 9.31
2007 9.35
2008 9.39
2009 9.43
2010 9.50
2011 9.62
2012 9.75
2013 9.90
2014 10.09
2015 10.33
2016 10.66
2017 11.03
2018 11.42
2019 11.81
2020 12.17

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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Middle income was 38.45 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 74.32 in 1966 and a minimum value of 38.45 in 2020.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, young, is the ratio of younger dependents--people younger than 15--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 70.28
1961 71.04
1962 72.07
1963 73.09
1964 73.73
1965 73.86
1966 74.32
1967 74.19
1968 73.69
1969 73.15
1970 72.68
1971 72.53
1972 72.30
1973 71.98
1974 71.51
1975 70.82
1976 70.17
1977 69.32
1978 68.30
1979 67.20
1980 66.06
1981 64.96
1982 63.91
1983 62.89
1984 61.90
1985 60.95
1986 60.39
1987 59.81
1988 59.24
1989 58.65
1990 58.00
1991 57.66
1992 57.04
1993 56.24
1994 55.43
1995 54.67
1996 53.61
1997 52.78
1998 52.01
1999 51.08
2000 49.93
2001 49.00
2002 47.85
2003 46.59
2004 45.42
2005 44.44
2006 43.62
2007 42.95
2008 42.40
2009 41.90
2010 41.42
2011 41.03
2012 40.65
2013 40.29
2014 39.96
2015 39.67
2016 39.42
2017 39.19
2018 38.96
2019 38.72
2020 38.45

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population