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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in IDA blend was 66.35 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 84.95 in 1988 and a minimum value of 66.35 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 74.28
1961 75.32
1962 76.17
1963 76.89
1964 77.55
1965 78.15
1966 79.22
1967 80.12
1968 80.87
1969 81.45
1970 81.87
1971 82.54
1972 83.03
1973 83.35
1974 83.52
1975 83.58
1976 83.94
1977 84.06
1978 84.04
1979 83.95
1980 83.83
1981 84.17
1982 84.38
1983 84.50
1984 84.51
1985 84.44
1986 84.77
1987 84.94
1988 84.95
1989 84.78
1990 84.43
1991 84.50
1992 84.30
1993 83.89
1994 83.33
1995 82.65
1996 82.14
1997 81.49
1998 80.71
1999 79.81
2000 78.81
2001 78.17
2002 77.39
2003 76.54
2004 75.66
2005 74.81
2006 74.19
2007 73.55
2008 72.91
2009 72.25
2010 71.56
2011 71.11
2012 70.63
2013 70.11
2014 69.57
2015 69.00
2016 68.59
2017 68.11
2018 67.58
2019 67.00
2020 66.35

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