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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Virgin Islands was 31.96 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 77.04 in 1976 and a minimum value of 31.53 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 73.02
1961 72.25
1962 72.40
1963 73.39
1964 74.12
1965 73.68
1966 71.24
1967 68.06
1968 64.50
1969 61.41
1970 59.54
1971 61.99
1972 65.62
1973 70.10
1974 74.07
1975 76.09
1976 77.04
1977 75.14
1978 70.73
1979 65.31
1980 60.23
1981 57.56
1982 56.02
1983 55.65
1984 55.62
1985 54.99
1986 54.81
1987 53.05
1988 50.04
1989 46.82
1990 44.28
1991 42.53
1992 41.90
1993 42.22
1994 42.62
1995 42.43
1996 43.28
1997 42.98
1998 41.83
1999 40.54
2000 39.53
2001 37.52
2002 36.01
2003 35.00
2004 34.21
2005 33.44
2006 32.94
2007 32.45
2008 31.99
2009 31.67
2010 31.53
2011 31.71
2012 31.90
2013 32.12
2014 32.37
2015 32.61
2016 32.55
2017 32.46
2018 32.32
2019 32.15
2020 31.96

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