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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Aruba was 25.56 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 81.70 in 1960 and a minimum value of 25.56 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 81.70
1961 80.21
1962 78.93
1963 77.66
1964 76.11
1965 74.22
1966 72.56
1967 70.37
1968 67.94
1969 65.65
1970 63.59
1971 60.60
1972 58.12
1973 55.82
1974 53.33
1975 50.47
1976 48.95
1977 46.84
1978 44.33
1979 41.85
1980 39.79
1981 38.44
1982 37.46
1983 36.87
1984 36.48
1985 35.99
1986 36.69
1987 36.97
1988 36.76
1989 36.37
1990 36.21
1991 35.15
1992 34.49
1993 34.18
1994 33.97
1995 33.62
1996 33.93
1997 34.02
1998 33.91
1999 33.71
2000 33.48
2001 33.06
2002 32.59
2003 32.03
2004 31.38
2005 30.70
2006 30.38
2007 30.25
2008 30.25
2009 30.29
2010 30.32
2011 29.80
2012 29.13
2013 28.35
2014 27.63
2015 27.04
2016 26.41
2017 26.08
2018 25.93
2019 25.79
2020 25.56

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