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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in IBRD only was 34.20 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 72.96 in 1966 and a minimum value of 34.20 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 69.34
1961 70.03
1962 71.02
1963 72.01
1964 72.59
1965 72.63
1966 72.96
1967 72.69
1968 72.04
1969 71.36
1970 70.78
1971 70.54
1972 70.21
1973 69.81
1974 69.26
1975 68.50
1976 67.73
1977 66.78
1978 65.68
1979 64.49
1980 63.26
1981 62.04
1982 60.89
1983 59.78
1984 58.70
1985 57.68
1986 57.04
1987 56.41
1988 55.79
1989 55.16
1990 54.47
1991 54.10
1992 53.42
1993 52.58
1994 51.73
1995 50.95
1996 49.81
1997 48.95
1998 48.16
1999 47.21
2000 46.02
2001 45.04
2002 43.82
2003 42.48
2004 41.25
2005 40.22
2006 39.36
2007 38.65
2008 38.08
2009 37.58
2010 37.10
2011 36.70
2012 36.32
2013 35.96
2014 35.64
2015 35.36
2016 35.12
2017 34.90
2018 34.69
2019 34.46
2020 34.20

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