Ukraine - Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Ukraine was 25.27 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 25.27 in 2020 and a minimum value of 10.88 in 1960.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, old, is the ratio of older dependents--people 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 10.88
1961 11.18
1962 11.46
1963 11.74
1964 12.03
1965 12.33
1966 12.63
1967 12.93
1968 13.24
1969 13.59
1970 13.97
1971 14.33
1972 14.67
1973 15.02
1974 15.40
1975 15.82
1976 16.30
1977 16.81
1978 17.29
1979 17.61
1980 17.74
1981 17.68
1982 17.44
1983 17.11
1984 16.84
1985 16.70
1986 16.78
1987 16.94
1988 17.17
1989 17.51
1990 17.95
1991 18.50
1992 19.14
1993 19.76
1994 20.18
1995 20.32
1996 20.46
1997 20.31
1998 20.03
1999 19.87
2000 19.98
2001 20.51
2002 21.27
2003 22.07
2004 22.65
2005 22.86
2006 23.05
2007 22.96
2008 22.72
2009 22.50
2010 22.39
2011 22.37
2012 22.38
2013 22.42
2014 22.52
2015 22.69
2016 23.15
2017 23.68
2018 24.26
2019 24.80
2020 25.27

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

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population