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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Indonesia was 38.25 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 81.09 in 1971 and a minimum value of 38.25 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 70.69
1961 72.29
1962 73.78
1963 75.17
1964 76.43
1965 77.53
1966 78.67
1967 79.66
1968 80.41
1969 80.83
1970 80.88
1971 81.09
1972 80.87
1973 80.33
1974 79.62
1975 78.80
1976 78.15
1977 77.36
1978 76.46
1979 75.42
1980 74.26
1981 73.24
1982 72.11
1983 70.89
1984 69.57
1985 68.14
1986 66.90
1987 65.49
1988 63.98
1989 62.46
1990 60.98
1991 59.55
1992 58.22
1993 56.93
1994 55.58
1995 54.15
1996 52.86
1997 51.47
1998 50.04
1999 48.69
2000 47.51
2001 47.00
2002 46.61
2003 46.30
2004 46.02
2005 45.75
2006 44.99
2007 44.42
2008 44.00
2009 43.73
2010 43.54
2011 42.94
2012 42.45
2013 41.99
2014 41.47
2015 40.87
2016 40.50
2017 39.93
2018 39.28
2019 38.70
2020 38.25

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