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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Belize was 44.38 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 99.72 in 1974 and a minimum value of 44.38 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 89.53
1961 91.97
1962 93.65
1963 94.93
1964 95.97
1965 96.81
1966 97.19
1967 97.54
1968 97.71
1969 97.53
1970 96.97
1971 98.03
1972 98.88
1973 99.45
1974 99.72
1975 99.68
1976 99.42
1977 98.68
1978 97.45
1979 96.13
1980 95.09
1981 92.82
1982 91.31
1983 90.25
1984 89.14
1985 87.73
1986 87.24
1987 86.25
1988 85.02
1989 83.89
1990 82.92
1991 82.38
1992 82.09
1993 81.82
1994 81.38
1995 80.76
1996 79.05
1997 77.24
1998 75.68
1999 74.51
2000 73.61
2001 72.49
2002 71.39
2003 70.22
2004 68.93
2005 67.51
2006 65.77
2007 64.04
2008 62.33
2009 60.66
2010 59.05
2011 57.18
2012 55.48
2013 53.84
2014 52.21
2015 50.57
2016 49.28
2017 47.93
2018 46.60
2019 45.40
2020 44.38

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