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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Israel was 46.57 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 61.97 in 1960 and a minimum value of 43.77 in 2010.

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 61.97
1961 61.86
1962 61.78
1963 61.50
1964 60.81
1965 59.66
1966 58.66
1967 57.29
1968 55.81
1969 54.63
1970 53.95
1971 53.58
1972 53.66
1973 54.02
1974 54.36
1975 54.55
1976 55.30
1977 55.80
1978 56.11
1979 56.38
1980 56.63
1981 56.67
1982 56.71
1983 56.69
1984 56.51
1985 56.15
1986 55.48
1987 54.76
1988 53.97
1989 53.12
1990 52.25
1991 51.32
1992 50.27
1993 49.19
1994 48.20
1995 47.36
1996 46.75
1997 46.30
1998 45.98
1999 45.68
2000 45.37
2001 45.29
2002 45.14
2003 44.96
2004 44.84
2005 44.83
2006 44.43
2007 44.18
2008 44.02
2009 43.89
2010 43.77
2011 44.18
2012 44.59
2013 45.00
2014 45.39
2015 45.74
2016 46.09
2017 46.32
2018 46.47
2019 46.55
2020 46.57

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