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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Small states was 44.33 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 76.15 in 1967 and a minimum value of 44.33 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 73.11
1961 73.99
1962 74.68
1963 75.17
1964 75.46
1965 75.54
1966 75.97
1967 76.15
1968 76.15
1969 76.03
1970 75.83
1971 75.26
1972 74.72
1973 74.18
1974 73.56
1975 72.81
1976 72.19
1977 71.44
1978 70.68
1979 70.06
1980 69.60
1981 69.10
1982 68.75
1983 68.48
1984 68.18
1985 67.77
1986 67.61
1987 67.21
1988 66.70
1989 66.21
1990 65.77
1991 65.36
1992 65.04
1993 64.72
1994 64.23
1995 63.56
1996 63.02
1997 62.26
1998 61.37
1999 60.45
2000 59.55
2001 58.44
2002 57.39
2003 56.38
2004 55.33
2005 54.24
2006 52.86
2007 51.46
2008 50.13
2009 48.93
2010 47.92
2011 47.35
2012 46.83
2013 46.41
2014 46.07
2015 45.77
2016 45.49
2017 45.19
2018 44.90
2019 44.62
2020 44.33

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