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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in United Arab Emirates was 17.65 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 85.69 in 1960 and a minimum value of 15.27 in 2010.

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 85.69
1961 81.24
1962 76.56
1963 72.14
1964 68.12
1965 64.56
1966 61.29
1967 58.66
1968 56.68
1969 55.31
1970 54.57
1971 48.89
1972 44.64
1973 41.86
1974 40.39
1975 40.01
1976 38.60
1977 37.92
1978 38.14
1979 38.94
1980 39.91
1981 41.35
1982 42.87
1983 44.54
1984 46.29
1985 47.94
1986 48.28
1987 48.13
1988 47.64
1989 46.88
1990 45.86
1991 44.23
1992 42.64
1993 41.09
1994 39.58
1995 38.17
1996 37.45
1997 36.68
1998 36.19
1999 35.96
2000 35.74
2001 31.83
2002 28.58
2003 26.03
2004 24.10
2005 22.71
2006 20.01
2007 18.07
2008 16.80
2009 15.95
2010 15.27
2011 15.64
2012 15.86
2013 16.08
2014 16.35
2015 16.68
2016 17.00
2017 17.17
2018 17.32
2019 17.49
2020 17.65

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