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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Nepal was 52.99 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 85.03 in 1990 and 52.99 in 2020.

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 75.30
1961 76.13
1962 77.31
1963 78.54
1964 79.32
1965 79.46
1966 80.00
1967 79.91
1968 79.40
1969 78.81
1970 78.30
1971 78.55
1972 78.67
1973 78.73
1974 78.75
1975 78.74
1976 79.36
1977 79.89
1978 80.32
1979 80.64
1980 80.83
1981 81.63
1982 82.20
1983 82.59
1984 82.87
1985 83.06
1986 83.78
1987 84.34
1988 84.73
1989 84.96
1990 85.03
1991 84.91
1992 84.54
1993 83.97
1994 83.26
1995 82.45
1996 82.34
1997 82.18
1998 81.95
1999 81.55
2000 80.93
2001 80.41
2002 79.72
2003 78.92
2004 78.08
2005 77.22
2006 75.60
2007 74.23
2008 73.02
2009 71.77
2010 70.36
2011 69.37
2012 68.06
2013 66.54
2014 65.02
2015 63.65
2016 61.09
2017 58.73
2018 56.60
2019 54.69
2020 52.99

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