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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Montenegro was 27.26 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 59.99 in 1964 and a minimum value of 27.15 in 2016.

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 59.03
1961 59.14
1962 59.51
1963 59.92
1964 59.99
1965 59.46
1966 59.33
1967 58.61
1968 57.42
1969 56.13
1970 55.05
1971 53.43
1972 52.12
1973 51.01
1974 49.82
1975 48.44
1976 47.39
1977 46.07
1978 44.63
1979 43.33
1980 42.30
1981 41.22
1982 40.46
1983 39.92
1984 39.39
1985 38.77
1986 38.85
1987 38.76
1988 38.57
1989 38.42
1990 38.36
1991 37.52
1992 36.89
1993 36.36
1994 35.77
1995 35.08
1996 34.64
1997 34.05
1998 33.36
1999 32.65
2000 32.01
2001 31.58
2002 31.20
2003 30.88
2004 30.56
2005 30.23
2006 29.96
2007 29.63
2008 29.24
2009 28.82
2010 28.39
2011 28.19
2012 27.94
2013 27.68
2014 27.46
2015 27.32
2016 27.15
2017 27.16
2018 27.25
2019 27.31
2020 27.26

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