Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) was 77.20 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 90.22 in 1988 and a minimum value of 77.20 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 80.13
1961 80.95
1962 81.55
1963 81.97
1964 82.23
1965 82.37
1966 83.25
1967 83.85
1968 84.23
1969 84.45
1970 84.55
1971 85.31
1972 85.84
1973 86.17
1974 86.36
1975 86.42
1976 87.02
1977 87.44
1978 87.73
1979 87.90
1980 87.97
1981 88.66
1982 89.11
1983 89.35
1984 89.45
1985 89.42
1986 89.91
1987 90.16
1988 90.22
1989 90.14
1990 89.94
1991 90.02
1992 89.91
1993 89.65
1994 89.26
1995 88.75
1996 88.90
1997 88.87
1998 88.69
1999 88.43
2000 88.10
2001 88.09
2002 87.94
2003 87.68
2004 87.36
2005 86.96
2006 86.87
2007 86.65
2008 86.31
2009 85.87
2010 85.33
2011 84.83
2012 84.20
2013 83.46
2014 82.64
2015 81.76
2016 80.97
2017 80.11
2018 79.19
2019 78.22
2020 77.20

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