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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in El Salvador was 41.06 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 90.74 in 1966 and a minimum value of 41.06 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 86.98
1961 87.89
1962 88.83
1963 89.68
1964 90.18
1965 90.24
1966 90.74
1967 90.71
1968 90.31
1969 89.76
1970 89.17
1971 88.63
1972 88.12
1973 87.60
1974 87.00
1975 86.27
1976 85.73
1977 85.16
1978 84.57
1979 83.96
1980 83.29
1981 82.53
1982 81.70
1983 80.83
1984 79.97
1985 79.10
1986 77.46
1987 75.94
1988 74.51
1989 73.15
1990 71.85
1991 70.32
1992 68.96
1993 67.78
1994 66.78
1995 65.94
1996 65.36
1997 64.82
1998 64.31
1999 63.82
2000 63.30
2001 62.62
2002 61.86
2003 61.01
2004 60.06
2005 59.03
2006 57.44
2007 55.99
2008 54.60
2009 53.15
2010 51.63
2011 50.12
2012 48.50
2013 46.90
2014 45.51
2015 44.42
2016 43.37
2017 42.58
2018 42.01
2019 41.53
2020 41.06

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