Tajikistan - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Tajikistan was 62.59 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 94.71 in 1968 and a minimum value of 57.85 in 2013.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, young, is the ratio of younger dependents--people younger than 15--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 72.09
1961 75.89
1962 80.15
1963 84.47
1964 88.14
1965 90.79
1966 93.17
1967 94.40
1968 94.71
1969 94.54
1970 94.14
1971 92.80
1972 91.53
1973 90.31
1974 88.97
1975 87.41
1976 86.51
1977 85.22
1978 83.74
1979 82.38
1980 81.31
1981 80.67
1982 80.40
1983 80.42
1984 80.57
1985 80.78
1986 81.51
1987 82.19
1988 82.82
1989 83.36
1990 83.71
1991 84.85
1992 85.50
1993 85.73
1994 85.67
1995 85.37
1996 84.43
1997 83.49
1998 82.40
1999 80.91
2000 78.93
2001 76.60
2002 73.85
2003 70.87
2004 67.98
2005 65.36
2006 63.40
2007 61.80
2008 60.50
2009 59.40
2010 58.47
2011 58.20
2012 57.95
2013 57.85
2014 58.05
2015 58.55
2016 59.31
2017 60.19
2018 61.11
2019 61.95
2020 62.59

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