Syrian Arab Republic - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Syrian Arab Republic was 47.82 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 101.99 in 1966 and a minimum value of 47.82 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 93.84
1961 95.60
1962 97.72
1963 99.78
1964 101.14
1965 101.59
1966 101.99
1967 101.54
1968 100.58
1969 99.62
1970 98.91
1971 98.88
1972 99.01
1973 99.24
1974 99.43
1975 99.51
1976 100.23
1977 100.77
1978 101.17
1979 101.51
1980 101.81
1981 101.85
1982 101.77
1983 101.54
1984 101.08
1985 100.35
1986 99.67
1987 98.73
1988 97.53
1989 96.07
1990 94.34
1991 92.28
1992 89.99
1993 87.57
1994 85.20
1995 82.97
1996 80.77
1997 78.91
1998 77.23
1999 75.52
2000 73.71
2001 72.85
2002 71.62
2003 70.27
2004 69.21
2005 68.62
2006 67.06
2007 66.16
2008 65.60
2009 64.76
2010 63.16
2011 61.71
2012 59.68
2013 57.16
2014 54.61
2015 52.51
2016 50.98
2017 49.85
2018 49.04
2019 48.34
2020 47.82

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