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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in New Caledonia was 32.42 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 66.79 in 1976 and a minimum value of 32.42 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 63.32
1961 63.53
1962 63.85
1963 64.25
1964 64.57
1965 64.72
1966 64.87
1967 64.79
1968 64.57
1969 64.45
1970 64.54
1971 65.23
1972 65.98
1973 66.54
1974 66.58
1975 65.92
1976 66.79
1977 66.62
1978 65.84
1979 65.02
1980 64.37
1981 63.30
1982 62.76
1983 62.29
1984 61.35
1985 59.81
1986 58.39
1987 56.52
1988 54.42
1989 52.51
1990 50.97
1991 49.78
1992 48.85
1993 48.18
1994 47.75
1995 47.51
1996 47.03
1997 46.92
1998 47.05
1999 47.19
2000 47.15
2001 46.54
2002 45.63
2003 44.51
2004 43.38
2005 42.34
2006 40.87
2007 39.92
2008 39.38
2009 38.98
2010 38.52
2011 38.25
2012 37.56
2013 36.64
2014 35.77
2015 35.05
2016 34.42
2017 33.88
2018 33.40
2019 32.92
2020 32.42

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