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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Japan was 21.04 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 47.20 in 1960 and a minimum value of 20.68 in 2007.

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 47.20
1961 45.34
1962 43.36
1963 41.36
1964 39.56
1965 38.06
1966 37.07
1967 36.19
1968 35.51
1969 35.09
1970 34.94
1971 34.87
1972 35.10
1973 35.50
1974 35.83
1975 35.95
1976 36.23
1977 36.10
1978 35.71
1979 35.29
1980 34.94
1981 34.18
1982 33.67
1983 33.24
1984 32.62
1985 31.71
1986 30.92
1987 29.84
1988 28.62
1989 27.47
1990 26.52
1991 25.68
1992 24.99
1993 24.41
1994 23.89
1995 23.39
1996 22.95
1997 22.58
1998 22.25
1999 21.95
2000 21.67
2001 21.47
2002 21.25
2003 21.04
2004 20.89
2005 20.79
2006 20.70
2007 20.68
2008 20.71
2009 20.76
2010 20.82
2011 20.94
2012 21.06
2013 21.16
2014 21.25
2015 21.30
2016 21.35
2017 21.33
2018 21.26
2019 21.16
2020 21.04

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