Macao SAR, China - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Macao SAR, China was 19.48 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 88.97 in 1965 and a minimum value of 15.64 in 2013.

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 78.57
1961 80.78
1962 83.56
1963 86.64
1964 88.81
1965 88.97
1966 87.68
1967 83.73
1968 78.18
1969 72.41
1970 66.99
1971 60.07
1972 54.38
1973 49.64
1974 45.37
1975 41.47
1976 39.00
1977 36.63
1978 34.78
1979 34.00
1980 34.41
1981 33.15
1982 33.20
1983 33.86
1984 34.27
1985 34.18
1986 35.78
1987 36.34
1988 36.49
1989 36.85
1990 37.53
1991 37.77
1992 38.12
1993 38.42
1994 38.33
1995 37.78
1996 37.13
1997 36.30
1998 35.32
1999 34.15
2000 32.74
2001 30.93
2002 28.79
2003 26.52
2004 24.36
2005 22.42
2006 20.58
2007 19.07
2008 17.86
2009 16.91
2010 16.16
2011 15.90
2012 15.71
2013 15.64
2014 15.74
2015 16.01
2016 16.60
2017 17.26
2018 18.00
2019 18.75
2020 19.48

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