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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Myanmar was 37.33 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 79.44 in 1967 and a minimum value of 37.33 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 72.09
1961 73.53
1962 75.14
1963 76.67
1964 77.79
1965 78.38
1966 79.16
1967 79.44
1968 79.35
1969 79.09
1970 78.76
1971 78.85
1972 78.70
1973 78.39
1974 77.98
1975 77.50
1976 77.20
1977 76.83
1978 76.36
1979 75.75
1980 74.99
1981 74.45
1982 73.76
1983 72.92
1984 71.93
1985 70.77
1986 69.87
1987 68.71
1988 67.37
1989 65.95
1990 64.49
1991 63.16
1992 61.87
1993 60.58
1994 59.23
1995 57.85
1996 56.51
1997 55.20
1998 53.93
1999 52.73
2000 51.61
2001 50.93
2002 50.27
2003 49.67
2004 49.11
2005 48.57
2006 48.20
2007 47.76
2008 47.26
2009 46.71
2010 46.12
2011 45.20
2012 44.31
2013 43.41
2014 42.48
2015 41.51
2016 40.60
2017 39.72
2018 38.87
2019 38.07
2020 37.33

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