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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Lao PDR was 50.08 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 85.89 in 1993 and a minimum value of 50.08 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 76.29
1961 76.77
1962 77.16
1963 77.40
1964 77.45
1965 77.29
1966 77.60
1967 77.64
1968 77.50
1969 77.32
1970 77.17
1971 77.55
1972 77.88
1973 78.16
1974 78.31
1975 78.29
1976 80.00
1977 81.52
1978 82.86
1979 84.12
1980 85.35
1981 85.60
1982 85.74
1983 85.80
1984 85.74
1985 85.60
1986 85.59
1987 85.48
1988 85.29
1989 85.06
1990 84.79
1991 85.33
1992 85.70
1993 85.89
1994 85.82
1995 85.43
1996 85.48
1997 85.04
1998 84.18
1999 83.05
2000 81.70
2001 79.93
2002 78.15
2003 76.26
2004 74.18
2005 71.94
2006 69.51
2007 67.14
2008 64.87
2009 62.77
2010 60.83
2011 59.17
2012 57.55
2013 56.04
2014 54.76
2015 53.74
2016 52.81
2017 52.09
2018 51.49
2019 50.84
2020 50.08

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