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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Mongolia was 54.81 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 101.24 in 1974 and 44.56 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 71.89
1961 74.74
1962 78.28
1963 82.08
1964 85.43
1965 87.92
1966 91.19
1967 93.08
1968 94.10
1969 95.05
1970 96.28
1971 97.49
1972 99.09
1973 100.58
1974 101.24
1975 100.76
1976 100.48
1977 99.03
1978 96.90
1979 94.79
1980 92.99
1981 91.62
1982 90.49
1983 89.44
1984 88.24
1985 86.84
1986 85.96
1987 84.90
1988 83.66
1989 82.19
1990 80.48
1991 79.88
1992 78.63
1993 77.01
1994 75.33
1995 73.68
1996 71.28
1997 69.29
1998 67.39
1999 65.18
2000 62.50
2001 59.76
2002 56.67
2003 53.52
2004 50.72
2005 48.49
2006 46.82
2007 45.70
2008 45.03
2009 44.68
2010 44.56
2011 45.07
2012 45.71
2013 46.53
2014 47.52
2015 48.65
2016 50.05
2017 51.39
2018 52.66
2019 53.82
2020 54.81

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