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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Moldova was 17.44 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 17.44 in 2020 and a minimum value of 9.76 in 1965.

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 9.96
1961 9.90
1962 9.84
1963 9.79
1964 9.76
1965 9.76
1966 9.90
1967 10.05
1968 10.18
1969 10.27
1970 10.29
1971 10.35
1972 10.35
1973 10.35
1974 10.42
1975 10.57
1976 10.87
1977 11.21
1978 11.53
1979 11.74
1980 11.82
1981 11.85
1982 11.76
1983 11.62
1984 11.53
1985 11.55
1986 11.77
1987 12.05
1988 12.38
1989 12.70
1990 13.00
1991 13.32
1992 13.61
1993 13.83
1994 13.97
1995 13.99
1996 14.16
1997 14.22
1998 14.19
1999 14.13
2000 14.04
2001 14.09
2002 14.13
2003 14.12
2004 14.04
2005 13.87
2006 13.95
2007 13.97
2008 13.95
2009 13.90
2010 13.83
2011 13.78
2012 13.65
2013 13.49
2014 13.43
2015 13.55
2016 14.11
2017 14.89
2018 15.78
2019 16.66
2020 17.44

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