Upper middle income - Age dependency ratio

Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Upper middle income was 45.50 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 79.86 in 1966 and 42.04 in 2012.

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 76.22
1961 76.76
1962 77.77
1963 78.83
1964 79.41
1965 79.32
1966 79.86
1967 79.62
1968 78.94
1969 78.27
1970 77.80
1971 77.77
1972 77.65
1973 77.43
1974 76.99
1975 76.24
1976 75.23
1977 74.00
1978 72.55
1979 70.93
1980 69.20
1981 67.31
1982 65.52
1983 63.81
1984 62.21
1985 60.79
1986 59.85
1987 59.06
1988 58.40
1989 57.79
1990 57.15
1991 56.99
1992 56.43
1993 55.67
1994 54.98
1995 54.46
1996 53.37
1997 52.75
1998 52.30
1999 51.61
2000 50.52
2001 49.66
2002 48.39
2003 46.92
2004 45.59
2005 44.53
2006 43.71
2007 43.10
2008 42.69
2009 42.38
2010 42.14
2011 42.06
2012 42.04
2013 42.11
2014 42.30
2015 42.62
2016 43.12
2017 43.71
2018 44.35
2019 44.96
2020 45.50

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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Upper middle income was 16.09 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 16.09 in 2020 and a minimum value of 7.17 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 7.17
1961 7.26
1962 7.31
1963 7.30
1964 7.27
1965 7.21
1966 7.35
1967 7.46
1968 7.56
1969 7.64
1970 7.71
1971 7.84
1972 7.96
1973 8.07
1974 8.17
1975 8.28
1976 8.42
1977 8.56
1978 8.67
1979 8.76
1980 8.81
1981 8.86
1982 8.87
1983 8.86
1984 8.86
1985 8.85
1986 8.89
1987 8.93
1988 8.97
1989 9.03
1990 9.12
1991 9.26
1992 9.42
1993 9.58
1994 9.73
1995 9.87
1996 10.02
1997 10.14
1998 10.26
1999 10.36
2000 10.46
2001 10.60
2002 10.72
2003 10.83
2004 10.91
2005 10.97
2006 11.05
2007 11.12
2008 11.19
2009 11.29
2010 11.42
2011 11.63
2012 11.85
2013 12.12
2014 12.46
2015 12.90
2016 13.45
2017 14.10
2018 14.78
2019 15.46
2020 16.09

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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Upper middle income was 29.21 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 71.66 in 1966 and a minimum value of 29.21 in 2020.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 68.43
1961 68.87
1962 69.79
1963 70.81
1964 71.37
1965 71.31
1966 71.66
1967 71.29
1968 70.51
1969 69.76
1970 69.21
1971 69.03
1972 68.78
1973 68.45
1974 67.91
1975 67.07
1976 65.98
1977 64.66
1978 63.13
1979 61.47
1980 59.73
1981 57.81
1982 56.01
1983 54.32
1984 52.73
1985 51.30
1986 50.33
1987 49.52
1988 48.83
1989 48.17
1990 47.46
1991 47.21
1992 46.51
1993 45.60
1994 44.77
1995 44.13
1996 42.89
1997 42.16
1998 41.63
1999 40.84
2000 39.64
2001 38.64
2002 37.22
2003 35.60
2004 34.14
2005 33.00
2006 32.08
2007 31.41
2008 30.95
2009 30.57
2010 30.21
2011 29.96
2012 29.74
2013 29.57
2014 29.45
2015 29.37
2016 29.35
2017 29.33
2018 29.31
2019 29.28
2020 29.21

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population