Syrian Arab Republic - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Syrian Arab Republic was 55.40 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 109.52 in 1966 and 55.40 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 101.91
1961 103.65
1962 105.72
1963 107.69
1964 108.94
1965 109.22
1966 109.52
1967 108.92
1968 107.79
1969 106.65
1970 105.77
1971 105.65
1972 105.70
1973 105.84
1974 105.93
1975 105.90
1976 106.59
1977 107.09
1978 107.45
1979 107.73
1980 107.97
1981 107.98
1982 107.86
1983 107.59
1984 107.09
1985 106.34
1986 105.68
1987 104.75
1988 103.57
1989 102.11
1990 100.40
1991 98.34
1992 96.03
1993 93.60
1994 91.22
1995 88.98
1996 86.79
1997 84.95
1998 83.27
1999 81.55
2000 79.71
2001 78.82
2002 77.55
2003 76.16
2004 75.06
2005 74.47
2006 72.87
2007 71.96
2008 71.39
2009 70.54
2010 68.93
2011 67.58
2012 65.65
2013 63.22
2014 60.79
2015 58.85
2016 57.51
2017 56.61
2018 56.07
2019 55.64
2020 55.40

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