St. Vincent and the Grenadines - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in St. Vincent and the Grenadines was 32.12 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 111.62 in 1965 and a minimum value of 32.12 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 107.07
1961 108.16
1962 109.20
1963 110.14
1964 110.93
1965 111.62
1966 111.35
1967 110.90
1968 110.35
1969 109.80
1970 109.30
1971 107.79
1972 106.33
1973 104.72
1974 102.84
1975 100.66
1976 98.14
1977 95.28
1978 92.24
1979 89.28
1980 86.51
1981 83.45
1982 80.76
1983 78.24
1984 75.77
1985 73.32
1986 71.69
1987 70.31
1988 69.23
1989 68.49
1990 67.95
1991 65.75
1992 63.78
1993 61.95
1994 60.17
1995 58.43
1996 56.80
1997 55.20
1998 53.66
1999 52.27
2000 51.03
2001 49.51
2002 48.09
2003 46.78
2004 45.54
2005 44.36
2006 43.25
2007 42.32
2008 41.42
2009 40.37
2010 39.18
2011 38.60
2012 37.82
2013 36.93
2014 36.09
2015 35.38
2016 34.70
2017 33.94
2018 33.21
2019 32.61
2020 32.12

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