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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Turkmenistan was 47.78 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 89.76 in 1967 and a minimum value of 44.02 in 2011.

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 72.53
1961 76.03
1962 79.55
1963 82.82
1964 85.49
1965 87.35
1966 89.06
1967 89.76
1968 89.66
1969 89.15
1970 88.48
1971 87.29
1972 86.15
1973 85.05
1974 83.87
1975 82.53
1976 81.35
1977 80.15
1978 78.96
1979 77.81
1980 76.68
1981 75.87
1982 74.96
1983 74.12
1984 73.48
1985 73.08
1986 72.79
1987 72.79
1988 72.95
1989 73.04
1990 72.95
1991 73.11
1992 72.78
1993 72.10
1994 71.16
1995 69.96
1996 68.67
1997 67.01
1998 65.08
1999 63.03
2000 61.00
2001 58.79
2002 57.05
2003 55.50
2004 53.83
2005 51.92
2006 50.45
2007 48.55
2008 46.61
2009 45.18
2010 44.49
2011 44.02
2012 44.37
2013 45.22
2014 46.02
2015 46.49
2016 47.42
2017 47.69
2018 47.60
2019 47.58
2020 47.78

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