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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in High income was 25.10 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 46.51 in 1961 and a minimum value of 25.10 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 46.45
1961 46.51
1962 46.31
1963 45.94
1964 45.52
1965 45.11
1966 44.80
1967 44.44
1968 44.05
1969 43.63
1970 43.17
1971 42.59
1972 42.02
1973 41.44
1974 40.80
1975 40.07
1976 39.48
1977 38.77
1978 37.97
1979 37.18
1980 36.44
1981 35.71
1982 35.08
1983 34.50
1984 33.95
1985 33.40
1986 33.02
1987 32.61
1988 32.18
1989 31.79
1990 31.45
1991 31.20
1992 30.96
1993 30.78
1994 30.56
1995 30.31
1996 30.06
1997 29.74
1998 29.37
1999 29.02
2000 28.70
2001 28.30
2002 27.96
2003 27.64
2004 27.32
2005 26.97
2006 26.72
2007 26.45
2008 26.19
2009 25.95
2010 25.75
2011 25.66
2012 25.53
2013 25.40
2014 25.30
2015 25.23
2016 25.17
2017 25.15
2018 25.15
2019 25.14
2020 25.10

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