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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Yemen was 66.68 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 112.37 in 1990 and a minimum value of 66.68 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 77.38
1961 78.21
1962 78.41
1963 78.25
1964 78.13
1965 78.28
1966 79.84
1967 81.59
1968 83.46
1969 85.27
1970 86.93
1971 89.78
1972 92.34
1973 94.70
1974 96.99
1975 99.26
1976 100.86
1977 102.11
1978 103.09
1979 103.91
1980 104.63
1981 105.66
1982 106.58
1983 107.38
1984 108.06
1985 108.63
1986 109.78
1987 110.61
1988 111.24
1989 111.80
1990 112.37
1991 111.78
1992 111.25
1993 110.58
1994 109.52
1995 107.95
1996 107.79
1997 106.77
1998 105.16
1999 103.29
2000 101.34
2001 98.96
2002 96.83
2003 94.73
2004 92.41
2005 89.82
2006 87.52
2007 84.95
2008 82.34
2009 80.01
2010 78.06
2011 76.53
2012 75.27
2013 74.19
2014 73.13
2015 72.01
2016 71.05
2017 70.00
2018 68.88
2019 67.77
2020 66.68

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