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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Turkmenistan was 55.18 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 99.04 in 1967 and 50.17 in 2011.

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 81.99
1961 85.46
1962 88.93
1963 92.13
1964 94.74
1965 96.54
1966 98.30
1967 99.04
1968 98.96
1969 98.42
1970 97.67
1971 96.45
1972 95.19
1973 93.94
1974 92.58
1975 91.05
1976 89.81
1977 88.52
1978 87.22
1979 85.90
1980 84.53
1981 83.57
1982 82.48
1983 81.44
1984 80.61
1985 80.05
1986 79.68
1987 79.61
1988 79.71
1989 79.79
1990 79.73
1991 79.99
1992 79.79
1993 79.24
1994 78.39
1995 77.23
1996 75.98
1997 74.30
1998 72.32
1999 70.23
2000 68.19
2001 66.07
2002 64.42
2003 62.95
2004 61.26
2005 59.24
2006 57.60
2007 55.46
2008 53.26
2009 51.59
2010 50.73
2011 50.17
2012 50.47
2013 51.32
2014 52.16
2015 52.72
2016 53.81
2017 54.29
2018 54.44
2019 54.68
2020 55.18

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