Kuwait - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Kuwait was 32.45 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 88.44 in 1974 and 30.42 in 2015.

Definition: Age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents--people younger than 15 or older than 64--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 57.27
1961 59.25
1962 61.28
1963 63.51
1964 65.65
1965 67.62
1966 71.63
1967 74.99
1968 78.17
1969 81.35
1970 84.35
1971 85.53
1972 86.79
1973 87.90
1974 88.44
1975 88.22
1976 85.43
1977 82.00
1978 78.32
1979 74.94
1980 72.19
1981 69.58
1982 67.80
1983 66.57
1984 65.35
1985 63.87
1986 63.51
1987 62.33
1988 60.69
1989 58.87
1990 56.82
1991 54.08
1995 47.25
1996 45.95
1997 44.85
1998 44.07
1999 43.47
2000 42.77
2001 42.13
2002 41.25
2003 40.29
2004 39.53
2005 39.16
2006 37.57
2007 36.35
2008 35.44
2009 34.61
2010 33.72
2011 33.23
2012 32.53
2013 31.72
2014 30.99
2015 30.42
2016 30.79
2017 31.24
2018 31.73
2019 32.16
2020 32.45

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

General Comments: Relevance to gender indicator: this indicator implies the dependency burden that the working-age population bears in relation to children and the elderly. Many times single or widowed women who are the sole caregiver of a household have a high dependency

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population