North Macedonia - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in North Macedonia was 44.48 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 74.49 in 1960 and 41.19 in 2012.

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 74.49
1961 73.80
1962 73.37
1963 72.92
1964 72.11
1965 70.84
1966 69.64
1967 68.11
1968 66.39
1969 64.71
1970 63.19
1971 62.18
1972 61.12
1973 60.19
1974 59.51
1975 59.12
1976 58.42
1977 58.09
1978 57.88
1979 57.45
1980 56.64
1981 55.63
1982 54.36
1983 52.99
1984 51.77
1985 50.83
1986 50.46
1987 50.23
1988 50.12
1989 50.10
1990 50.14
1991 50.32
1992 50.57
1993 50.83
1994 51.01
1995 51.07
1996 50.77
1997 50.25
1998 49.61
1999 48.94
2000 48.30
2001 47.66
2002 47.13
2003 46.64
2004 46.06
2005 45.37
2006 44.75
2007 43.96
2008 43.12
2009 42.39
2010 41.85
2011 41.40
2012 41.19
2013 41.19
2014 41.33
2015 41.56
2016 42.12
2017 42.68
2018 43.24
2019 43.84
2020 44.48

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