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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Uruguay was 23.36 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.36 in 2020 and a minimum value of 12.75 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 12.75
1961 12.87
1962 12.96
1963 13.04
1964 13.13
1965 13.22
1966 13.42
1967 13.61
1968 13.80
1969 13.97
1970 14.11
1971 14.40
1972 14.66
1973 14.91
1974 15.17
1975 15.46
1976 15.74
1977 16.05
1978 16.35
1979 16.61
1980 16.82
1981 17.04
1982 17.21
1983 17.35
1984 17.48
1985 17.64
1986 17.85
1987 18.06
1988 18.27
1989 18.47
1990 18.66
1991 18.95
1992 19.22
1993 19.46
1994 19.69
1995 19.91
1996 20.20
1997 20.47
1998 20.70
1999 20.88
2000 20.99
2001 21.22
2002 21.38
2003 21.49
2004 21.57
2005 21.65
2006 21.74
2007 21.80
2008 21.85
2009 21.89
2010 21.95
2011 22.05
2012 22.14
2013 22.25
2014 22.36
2015 22.48
2016 22.63
2017 22.78
2018 22.94
2019 23.13
2020 23.36

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