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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Algeria was 49.27 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 96.61 in 1966 and a minimum value of 40.56 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 85.44
1961 87.34
1962 89.82
1963 92.41
1964 94.43
1965 95.54
1966 96.61
1967 96.61
1968 95.92
1969 95.14
1970 94.52
1971 94.54
1972 94.65
1973 94.75
1974 94.66
1975 94.30
1976 94.30
1977 93.97
1978 93.43
1979 92.82
1980 92.21
1981 91.84
1982 91.29
1983 90.57
1984 89.69
1985 88.61
1986 87.58
1987 86.32
1988 84.85
1989 83.19
1990 81.34
1991 79.47
1992 77.45
1993 75.24
1994 72.83
1995 70.19
1996 67.56
1997 64.71
1998 61.74
1999 58.81
2000 56.03
2001 53.14
2002 50.55
2003 48.23
2004 46.14
2005 44.31
2006 42.92
2007 41.87
2008 41.15
2009 40.72
2010 40.56
2011 40.99
2012 41.44
2013 42.01
2014 42.82
2015 43.88
2016 44.92
2017 46.18
2018 47.49
2019 48.57
2020 49.27

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