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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Cambodia was 48.15 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 92.46 in 1964 and a minimum value of 48.15 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 88.42
1961 89.26
1962 90.50
1963 91.76
1964 92.46
1965 92.30
1966 92.31
1967 91.53
1968 90.22
1969 88.87
1970 87.76
1971 86.80
1972 86.19
1973 85.71
1974 84.73
1975 82.81
1976 81.36
1977 78.86
1978 75.86
1979 73.60
1980 73.05
1981 71.48
1982 72.30
1983 74.54
1984 76.53
1985 77.48
1986 80.58
1987 81.38
1988 81.19
1989 81.79
1990 83.85
1991 85.11
1992 87.67
1993 90.58
1994 92.28
1995 92.05
1996 91.32
1997 88.63
1998 84.40
1999 79.67
2000 75.17
2001 71.39
2002 68.47
2003 66.23
2004 64.26
2005 62.25
2006 60.10
2007 58.04
2008 56.07
2009 54.34
2010 52.95
2011 52.02
2012 51.06
2013 50.21
2014 49.57
2015 49.16
2016 48.78
2017 48.62
2018 48.58
2019 48.45
2020 48.15

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