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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Singapore was 16.55 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 83.13 in 1963 and a minimum value of 15.77 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 78.99
1961 81.50
1962 82.89
1963 83.13
1964 82.47
1965 81.21
1966 78.68
1967 76.05
1968 73.26
1969 70.22
1970 66.97
1971 63.79
1972 60.82
1973 57.92
1974 54.97
1975 51.95
1976 49.53
1977 46.76
1978 43.94
1979 41.49
1980 39.63
1981 37.85
1982 36.71
1983 35.99
1984 35.31
1985 34.46
1986 33.54
1987 32.38
1988 31.16
1989 30.14
1990 29.42
1991 29.01
1992 28.71
1993 28.46
1994 28.17
1995 27.79
1996 27.66
1997 27.26
1998 26.59
1999 25.79
2000 24.98
2001 24.71
2002 24.46
2003 24.07
2004 23.48
2005 22.79
2006 22.02
2007 21.10
2008 20.01
2009 18.85
2010 17.77
2011 17.50
2012 17.23
2013 16.88
2014 16.48
2015 16.13
2016 15.77
2017 15.82
2018 16.10
2019 16.38
2020 16.55

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