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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Montenegro was 23.83 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.83 in 2020 and a minimum value of 10.16 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 10.45
1961 10.43
1962 10.38
1963 10.32
1964 10.24
1965 10.16
1966 10.45
1967 10.76
1968 11.12
1969 11.54
1970 12.03
1971 12.20
1972 12.36
1973 12.49
1974 12.59
1975 12.63
1976 12.72
1977 12.77
1978 12.77
1979 12.71
1980 12.59
1981 12.40
1982 12.17
1983 11.93
1984 11.72
1985 11.59
1986 11.66
1987 11.77
1988 11.93
1989 12.15
1990 12.43
1991 12.76
1992 13.16
1993 13.62
1994 14.12
1995 14.67
1996 15.19
1997 15.71
1998 16.23
1999 16.74
2000 17.27
2001 17.82
2002 18.37
2003 18.89
2004 19.31
2005 19.57
2006 19.60
2007 19.49
2008 19.33
2009 19.19
2010 19.13
2011 19.23
2012 19.37
2013 19.59
2014 19.91
2015 20.35
2016 20.94
2017 21.65
2018 22.41
2019 23.16
2020 23.83

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