United Arab Emirates - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in United Arab Emirates was 19.16 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 92.30 in 1960 and 16.07 in 2010.

Definition: Age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents--people younger than 15 or older than 64--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 92.30
1961 87.19
1962 81.93
1963 76.97
1964 72.46
1965 68.41
1966 64.72
1967 61.71
1968 59.42
1969 57.78
1970 56.83
1971 50.72
1972 46.34
1973 43.60
1974 42.29
1975 42.13
1976 40.64
1977 39.95
1978 40.19
1979 41.00
1980 41.96
1981 43.37
1982 44.82
1983 46.42
1984 48.12
1985 49.76
1986 50.06
1987 49.90
1988 49.42
1989 48.65
1990 47.63
1991 45.95
1992 44.29
1993 42.68
1994 41.11
1995 39.64
1996 38.91
1997 38.16
1998 37.69
1999 37.47
2000 37.24
2001 33.22
2002 29.87
2003 27.23
2004 25.25
2005 23.81
2006 20.98
2007 18.96
2008 17.63
2009 16.76
2010 16.07
2011 16.50
2012 16.80
2013 17.08
2014 17.42
2015 17.78
2016 18.16
2017 18.40
2018 18.61
2019 18.86
2020 19.16

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

General Comments: Relevance to gender indicator: this indicator implies the dependency burden that the working-age population bears in relation to children and the elderly. Many times single or widowed women who are the sole caregiver of a household have a high dependency

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population