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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Middle income was 38.45 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 74.32 in 1966 and a minimum value of 38.45 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 70.28
1961 71.04
1962 72.07
1963 73.09
1964 73.73
1965 73.86
1966 74.32
1967 74.19
1968 73.69
1969 73.15
1970 72.68
1971 72.53
1972 72.30
1973 71.98
1974 71.51
1975 70.82
1976 70.17
1977 69.32
1978 68.30
1979 67.20
1980 66.06
1981 64.96
1982 63.91
1983 62.89
1984 61.90
1985 60.95
1986 60.39
1987 59.81
1988 59.24
1989 58.65
1990 58.00
1991 57.66
1992 57.04
1993 56.24
1994 55.43
1995 54.67
1996 53.61
1997 52.78
1998 52.01
1999 51.08
2000 49.93
2001 49.00
2002 47.85
2003 46.59
2004 45.42
2005 44.44
2006 43.62
2007 42.95
2008 42.40
2009 41.90
2010 41.42
2011 41.03
2012 40.65
2013 40.29
2014 39.96
2015 39.67
2016 39.42
2017 39.19
2018 38.96
2019 38.72
2020 38.45

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