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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Curaçao was 28.33 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 76.86 in 1961 and a minimum value of 28.33 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 76.47
1961 76.86
1962 76.63
1963 76.13
1964 75.73
1965 75.49
1966 74.59
1967 74.27
1968 74.12
1969 73.56
1970 72.28
1971 71.24
1972 69.37
1973 67.01
1974 64.74
1975 62.77
1976 59.48
1977 56.55
1978 53.89
1979 51.44
1980 49.27
1981 47.28
1982 45.75
1983 44.45
1984 43.26
1985 42.18
1986 41.68
1987 41.46
1988 41.43
1989 41.54
1990 41.75
1991 41.72
1992 41.71
1993 41.66
1994 41.57
1995 41.42
1996 40.87
1997 40.32
1998 39.68
1999 39.02
2000 38.46
2001 36.67
2002 35.42
2003 34.41
2004 33.41
2005 32.46
2006 32.35
2007 31.99
2008 31.55
2009 31.29
2010 31.26
2011 30.77
2012 30.66
2013 30.71
2014 30.68
2015 30.46
2016 30.29
2017 29.89
2018 29.31
2019 28.75
2020 28.33

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