Kuwait - Age dependency ratio

Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Kuwait was 32.45 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 88.44 in 1974 and 30.42 in 2015.

Definition: Age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents--people younger than 15 or older than 64--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 57.27
1961 59.25
1962 61.28
1963 63.51
1964 65.65
1965 67.62
1966 71.63
1967 74.99
1968 78.17
1969 81.35
1970 84.35
1971 85.53
1972 86.79
1973 87.90
1974 88.44
1975 88.22
1976 85.43
1977 82.00
1978 78.32
1979 74.94
1980 72.19
1981 69.58
1982 67.80
1983 66.57
1984 65.35
1985 63.87
1986 63.51
1987 62.33
1988 60.69
1989 58.87
1990 56.82
1991 54.08
1995 47.25
1996 45.95
1997 44.85
1998 44.07
1999 43.47
2000 42.77
2001 42.13
2002 41.25
2003 40.29
2004 39.53
2005 39.16
2006 37.57
2007 36.35
2008 35.44
2009 34.61
2010 33.72
2011 33.23
2012 32.53
2013 31.72
2014 30.99
2015 30.42
2016 30.79
2017 31.24
2018 31.73
2019 32.16
2020 32.45

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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Kuwait was 4.02 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 4.02 in 2020 and a minimum value of 1.99 in 1996.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, old, is the ratio of older dependents--people older than 64--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 3.14
1961 3.00
1962 2.91
1963 2.86
1964 2.82
1965 2.80
1966 2.98
1967 3.11
1968 3.22
1969 3.32
1970 3.44
1971 3.45
1972 3.43
1973 3.36
1974 3.29
1975 3.26
1976 3.22
1977 3.17
1978 3.09
1979 2.96
1980 2.81
1981 2.72
1982 2.60
1983 2.47
1984 2.34
1985 2.23
1986 2.19
1987 2.18
1988 2.17
1989 2.14
1990 2.09
1991 2.17
1995 2.01
1996 1.99
1997 2.02
1998 2.08
1999 2.16
2000 2.26
2001 2.38
2002 2.53
2003 2.69
2004 2.86
2005 3.01
2006 2.96
2007 2.89
2008 2.81
2009 2.74
2010 2.67
2011 2.66
2012 2.66
2013 2.67
2014 2.70
2015 2.76
2016 2.93
2017 3.13
2018 3.36
2019 3.65
2020 4.02

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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Kuwait was 28.43 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 85.15 in 1974 and a minimum value of 27.65 in 2015.

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 54.12
1961 56.25
1962 58.38
1963 60.65
1964 62.83
1965 64.82
1966 68.65
1967 71.88
1968 74.95
1969 78.03
1970 80.91
1971 82.08
1972 83.36
1973 84.54
1974 85.15
1975 84.95
1976 82.21
1977 78.83
1978 75.23
1979 71.98
1980 69.37
1981 66.87
1982 65.19
1983 64.10
1984 63.02
1985 61.63
1986 61.32
1987 60.15
1988 58.52
1989 56.73
1990 54.74
1991 51.91
1995 45.24
1996 43.97
1997 42.83
1998 42.00
1999 41.31
2000 40.51
2001 39.75
2002 38.72
2003 37.60
2004 36.67
2005 36.15
2006 34.60
2007 33.46
2008 32.63
2009 31.88
2010 31.04
2011 30.57
2012 29.87
2013 29.05
2014 28.29
2015 27.65
2016 27.85
2017 28.12
2018 28.37
2019 28.51
2020 28.43

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population