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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Saudi Arabia was 34.39 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 84.54 in 1971 and a minimum value of 34.39 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 81.05
1961 81.66
1962 82.01
1963 82.22
1964 82.42
1965 82.64
1966 83.18
1967 83.55
1968 83.85
1969 84.15
1970 84.50
1971 84.54
1972 84.52
1973 84.47
1974 84.37
1975 84.20
1976 83.74
1977 83.09
1978 82.45
1979 81.99
1980 81.77
1981 80.51
1982 79.45
1983 78.52
1984 77.56
1985 76.46
1986 76.70
1987 76.56
1988 76.38
1989 76.28
1990 76.13
1991 76.66
1992 77.09
1993 77.15
1994 76.62
1995 75.51
1996 72.82
1997 70.22
1998 68.04
1999 66.41
2000 65.17
2001 62.49
2002 60.05
2003 57.80
2004 55.66
2005 53.63
2006 51.50
2007 49.39
2008 47.40
2009 45.64
2010 44.12
2011 42.01
2012 40.22
2013 38.70
2014 37.40
2015 36.29
2016 35.76
2017 35.31
2018 34.96
2019 34.67
2020 34.39

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