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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Latvia was 26.13 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 33.44 in 1964 and a minimum value of 20.62 in 2009.

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 32.71
1961 32.89
1962 33.11
1963 33.33
1964 33.44
1965 33.43
1966 33.42
1967 33.25
1968 32.97
1969 32.71
1970 32.53
1971 32.31
1972 32.23
1973 32.20
1974 32.03
1975 31.66
1976 31.77
1977 31.50
1978 31.05
1979 30.67
1980 30.52
1981 30.36
1982 30.58
1983 31.02
1984 31.42
1985 31.66
1986 32.02
1987 32.18
1988 32.22
1989 32.23
1990 32.18
1991 32.41
1992 32.47
1993 32.36
1994 32.07
1995 31.64
1996 30.68
1997 29.72
1998 28.74
1999 27.70
2000 26.59
2001 25.42
2002 24.34
2003 23.31
2004 22.33
2005 21.44
2006 21.17
2007 20.87
2008 20.65
2009 20.62
2010 20.80
2011 21.07
2012 21.45
2013 21.91
2014 22.46
2015 23.08
2016 23.40
2017 24.12
2018 25.01
2019 25.74
2020 26.13

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