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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Estonia was 26.13 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 35.01 in 1962 and a minimum value of 21.97 in 2007.

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 34.81
1961 34.99
1962 35.01
1963 34.85
1964 34.58
1965 34.29
1966 34.11
1967 33.87
1968 33.62
1969 33.41
1970 33.26
1971 33.12
1972 33.05
1973 33.02
1974 32.93
1975 32.76
1976 32.89
1977 32.88
1978 32.80
1979 32.77
1980 32.83
1981 32.77
1982 32.84
1983 32.99
1984 33.12
1985 33.19
1986 33.36
1987 33.52
1988 33.64
1989 33.68
1990 33.53
1991 33.48
1992 33.15
1993 32.60
1994 31.95
1995 31.34
1996 30.09
1997 29.01
1998 28.06
1999 27.10
2000 26.09
2001 25.22
2002 24.37
2003 23.53
2004 22.81
2005 22.26
2006 22.07
2007 21.97
2008 22.02
2009 22.19
2010 22.47
2011 22.93
2012 23.36
2013 23.79
2014 24.26
2015 24.80
2016 24.89
2017 25.16
2018 25.55
2019 25.91
2020 26.13

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