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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Ukraine was 23.84 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 41.87 in 1963 and a minimum value of 20.09 in 2009.

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 41.53
1961 41.48
1962 41.67
1963 41.87
1964 41.75
1965 41.20
1966 40.79
1967 39.88
1968 38.70
1969 37.61
1970 36.80
1971 35.79
1972 35.17
1973 34.81
1974 34.45
1975 33.97
1976 33.81
1977 33.41
1978 32.89
1979 32.47
1980 32.24
1981 32.13
1982 32.22
1983 32.42
1984 32.59
1985 32.62
1986 32.68
1987 32.59
1988 32.36
1989 32.08
1990 31.80
1991 31.57
1992 31.32
1993 30.98
1994 30.50
1995 29.83
1996 28.96
1997 27.97
1998 26.90
1999 25.82
2000 24.78
2001 23.90
2002 23.07
2003 22.30
2004 21.62
2005 21.04
2006 20.57
2007 20.27
2008 20.13
2009 20.09
2010 20.13
2011 20.52
2012 20.85
2013 21.19
2014 21.61
2015 22.10
2016 22.48
2017 22.91
2018 23.34
2019 23.67
2020 23.84

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