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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Uruguay was 31.49 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 44.31 in 1967 and a minimum value of 31.49 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 43.54
1961 43.82
1962 43.99
1963 44.08
1964 44.14
1965 44.17
1966 44.28
1967 44.31
1968 44.28
1969 44.22
1970 44.14
1971 44.04
1972 44.13
1973 44.26
1974 44.29
1975 44.17
1976 44.18
1977 43.91
1978 43.52
1979 43.20
1980 43.04
1981 42.96
1982 42.95
1983 42.99
1984 43.04
1985 43.08
1986 42.73
1987 42.53
1988 42.36
1989 42.09
1990 41.71
1991 41.53
1992 41.15
1993 40.69
1994 40.28
1995 39.99
1996 39.84
1997 39.74
1998 39.66
1999 39.54
2000 39.35
2001 39.09
2002 38.85
2003 38.57
2004 38.22
2005 37.77
2006 37.27
2007 36.67
2008 36.00
2009 35.36
2010 34.80
2011 34.26
2012 33.81
2013 33.44
2014 33.09
2015 32.72
2016 32.48
2017 32.20
2018 31.91
2019 31.67
2020 31.49

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