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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Afghanistan was 75.32 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 100.16 in 2000 and a minimum value of 75.32 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.

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Year Value
1960 76.54
1961 77.56
1962 78.15
1963 78.49
1964 78.79
1965 79.14
1966 80.30
1967 81.33
1968 82.23
1969 82.98
1970 83.56
1971 84.78
1972 85.70
1973 86.38
1974 86.85
1975 87.05
1976 88.05
1977 88.92
1978 89.60
1979 89.97
1980 89.87
1981 90.96
1982 91.91
1983 92.75
1984 93.63
1985 94.80
1986 95.49
1987 95.72
1988 95.80
1989 96.26
1990 97.67
1991 97.33
1992 97.02
1993 96.90
1994 96.69
1995 96.00
1996 97.00
1997 98.04
1998 98.88
1999 99.54
2000 100.16
2001 99.83
2002 99.08
2003 98.12
2004 97.06
2005 95.89
2006 96.45
2007 97.02
2008 97.46
2009 97.59
2010 97.34
2011 95.51
2012 93.20
2013 90.61
2014 87.93
2015 85.25
2016 83.21
2017 81.25
2018 79.32
2019 77.35
2020 75.32

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