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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Libya was 41.05 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 98.51 in 1977 and a minimum value of 41.05 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 76.79
1961 77.78
1962 78.98
1963 80.32
1964 81.63
1965 82.85
1966 84.72
1967 86.44
1968 88.05
1969 89.62
1970 91.15
1971 93.02
1972 94.54
1973 95.78
1974 96.79
1975 97.53
1976 98.20
1977 98.51
1978 98.46
1979 97.96
1980 96.99
1981 95.22
1982 93.06
1983 90.63
1984 88.10
1985 85.53
1986 83.75
1987 81.95
1988 80.07
1989 78.00
1990 75.71
1991 73.61
1992 71.20
1993 68.64
1994 66.16
1995 63.84
1996 61.69
1997 59.76
1998 57.96
1999 56.15
2000 54.27
2001 52.41
2002 50.53
2003 48.73
2004 47.14
2005 45.81
2006 44.89
2007 44.19
2008 43.68
2009 43.26
2010 42.87
2011 42.90
2012 42.94
2013 42.99
2014 43.07
2015 43.16
2016 42.87
2017 42.51
2018 42.09
2019 41.60
2020 41.05

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