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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Mongolia was 48.14 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 91.37 in 1974 and a minimum value of 39.06 in 2010.

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 63.59
1961 66.17
1962 69.46
1963 73.05
1964 76.25
1965 78.66
1966 81.82
1967 83.68
1968 84.72
1969 85.68
1970 86.88
1971 87.94
1972 89.37
1973 90.74
1974 91.37
1975 90.99
1976 90.83
1977 89.60
1978 87.75
1979 85.90
1980 84.32
1981 83.05
1982 82.01
1983 81.05
1984 79.98
1985 78.73
1986 77.95
1987 77.01
1988 75.92
1989 74.60
1990 73.03
1991 72.54
1992 71.44
1993 69.99
1994 68.50
1995 67.08
1996 64.75
1997 62.84
1998 61.07
1999 59.00
2000 56.50
2001 53.82
2002 50.82
2003 47.77
2004 45.08
2005 42.96
2006 41.30
2007 40.17
2008 39.50
2009 39.15
2010 39.06
2011 39.53
2012 40.14
2013 40.92
2014 41.86
2015 42.90
2016 44.16
2017 45.34
2018 46.42
2019 47.37
2020 48.14

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