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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Jamaica was 34.57 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 95.70 in 1970 and a minimum value of 34.57 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 76.48
1961 78.28
1962 79.87
1963 81.14
1964 82.20
1965 83.29
1966 85.69
1967 88.46
1968 91.30
1969 93.82
1970 95.70
1971 95.54
1972 94.75
1973 93.34
1974 91.46
1975 89.25
1976 85.18
1977 81.58
1978 78.55
1979 76.13
1980 74.21
1981 72.40
1982 70.81
1983 69.30
1984 67.69
1985 65.92
1986 64.75
1987 63.38
1988 62.00
1989 60.90
1990 60.17
1991 59.15
1992 58.44
1993 57.92
1994 57.37
1995 56.70
1996 56.05
1997 55.40
1998 54.77
1999 54.16
2000 53.55
2001 52.72
2002 51.76
2003 50.73
2004 49.68
2005 48.64
2006 47.23
2007 45.89
2008 44.54
2009 43.13
2010 41.72
2011 40.56
2012 39.46
2013 38.45
2014 37.56
2015 36.78
2016 36.22
2017 35.69
2018 35.21
2019 34.84
2020 34.57

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