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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Iraq was 64.09 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 95.93 in 1979 and a minimum value of 64.09 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 74.78
1961 75.20
1962 77.32
1963 80.22
1964 82.54
1965 83.71
1966 85.41
1967 86.01
1968 86.02
1969 86.19
1970 86.82
1971 88.38
1972 89.78
1973 91.12
1974 92.38
1975 93.48
1976 94.23
1977 95.09
1978 95.77
1979 95.93
1980 95.45
1981 95.59
1982 95.13
1983 94.27
1984 93.32
1985 92.45
1986 92.12
1987 91.91
1988 91.70
1989 91.37
1990 90.89
1991 89.68
1992 88.33
1993 86.96
1994 85.71
1995 84.65
1996 83.53
1997 82.61
1998 81.81
1999 80.99
2000 80.11
2001 79.65
2002 79.05
2003 78.37
2004 77.67
2005 76.96
2006 76.88
2007 76.79
2008 76.63
2009 76.43
2010 76.24
2011 74.43
2012 72.78
2013 71.27
2014 69.79
2015 68.26
2016 67.71
2017 66.86
2018 65.85
2019 64.90
2020 64.09

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