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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Arab World was 51.95 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 87.13 in 1968 and a minimum value of 51.95 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 81.32
1961 82.63
1962 83.79
1963 84.77
1964 85.47
1965 85.87
1966 86.67
1967 87.05
1968 87.13
1969 87.05
1970 86.85
1971 87.10
1972 87.11
1973 86.95
1974 86.68
1975 86.36
1976 86.19
1977 85.94
1978 85.61
1979 85.21
1980 84.70
1981 84.41
1982 84.00
1983 83.49
1984 82.92
1985 82.30
1986 82.02
1987 81.60
1988 81.07
1989 80.45
1990 79.86
1991 78.98
1992 78.25
1993 77.07
1994 75.74
1995 74.06
1996 72.69
1997 71.26
1998 69.81
1999 68.36
2000 66.90
2001 65.40
2002 63.90
2003 62.43
2004 61.01
2005 59.69
2006 58.40
2007 57.20
2008 56.14
2009 55.25
2010 54.52
2011 53.92
2012 53.47
2013 53.14
2014 52.86
2015 52.60
2016 52.61
2017 52.50
2018 52.31
2019 52.13
2020 51.95

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