Saudi Arabia - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Saudi Arabia was 39.27 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 91.08 in 1970 and 39.27 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.

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Year Value
1960 87.85
1961 88.48
1962 88.83
1963 89.03
1964 89.20
1965 89.39
1966 89.92
1967 90.26
1968 90.52
1969 90.77
1970 91.08
1971 91.04
1972 90.94
1973 90.82
1974 90.64
1975 90.41
1976 89.82
1977 89.06
1978 88.31
1979 87.75
1980 87.44
1981 85.97
1982 84.71
1983 83.61
1984 82.48
1985 81.22
1986 81.47
1987 81.37
1988 81.26
1989 81.26
1990 81.23
1991 81.83
1992 82.31
1993 82.40
1994 81.89
1995 80.78
1996 78.04
1997 75.39
1998 73.17
1999 71.53
2000 70.28
2001 67.50
2002 64.97
2003 62.63
2004 60.42
2005 58.32
2006 56.12
2007 53.95
2008 51.91
2009 50.10
2010 48.53
2011 46.34
2012 44.47
2013 42.89
2014 41.59
2015 40.54
2016 40.12
2017 39.79
2018 39.58
2019 39.43
2020 39.27

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