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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Caribbean small states was 34.44 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 90.22 in 1970 and a minimum value of 34.44 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 82.05
1961 83.47
1962 84.69
1963 85.67
1964 86.42
1965 86.99
1966 87.98
1967 88.84
1968 89.53
1969 90.01
1970 90.22
1971 88.54
1972 87.00
1973 85.44
1974 83.70
1975 81.76
1976 79.00
1977 76.23
1978 73.65
1979 71.49
1980 69.82
1981 68.01
1982 66.70
1983 65.70
1984 64.66
1985 63.40
1986 62.57
1987 61.38
1988 60.08
1989 59.00
1990 58.29
1991 57.30
1992 56.68
1993 56.25
1994 55.71
1995 54.94
1996 53.99
1997 52.91
1998 51.81
1999 50.80
2000 49.94
2001 48.97
2002 48.05
2003 47.17
2004 46.30
2005 45.42
2006 44.29
2007 43.20
2008 42.14
2009 41.10
2010 40.11
2011 39.27
2012 38.49
2013 37.76
2014 37.10
2015 36.50
2016 36.03
2017 35.57
2018 35.14
2019 34.76
2020 34.44

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