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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Dominican Republic was 42.19 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 101.45 in 1964 and a minimum value of 42.19 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 97.96
1961 99.24
1962 100.30
1963 101.07
1964 101.45
1965 101.36
1966 101.06
1967 100.34
1968 99.26
1969 97.95
1970 96.45
1971 94.91
1972 93.22
1973 91.42
1974 89.57
1975 87.67
1976 85.86
1977 84.03
1978 82.22
1979 80.47
1980 78.81
1981 77.25
1982 75.80
1983 74.44
1984 73.15
1985 71.91
1986 70.72
1987 69.58
1988 68.49
1989 67.48
1990 66.55
1991 65.60
1992 64.76
1993 63.97
1994 63.19
1995 62.36
1996 61.55
1997 60.66
1998 59.72
1999 58.80
2000 57.92
2001 56.99
2002 56.13
2003 55.29
2004 54.41
2005 53.45
2006 52.43
2007 51.36
2008 50.26
2009 49.18
2010 48.18
2011 47.31
2012 46.53
2013 45.83
2014 45.18
2015 44.58
2016 44.05
2017 43.55
2018 43.08
2019 42.63
2020 42.19

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