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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Philippines was 46.62 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 96.44 in 1964 and a minimum value of 46.62 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 94.27
1961 94.63
1962 95.41
1963 96.21
1964 96.44
1965 95.88
1966 95.51
1967 94.46
1968 93.00
1969 91.51
1970 90.17
1971 89.05
1972 87.99
1973 86.97
1974 85.94
1975 84.88
1976 83.99
1977 83.10
1978 82.21
1979 81.30
1980 80.37
1981 79.59
1982 78.72
1983 77.82
1984 76.96
1985 76.17
1986 75.56
1987 75.02
1988 74.50
1989 73.91
1990 73.20
1991 72.66
1992 71.95
1993 71.15
1994 70.35
1995 69.58
1996 68.84
1997 68.17
1998 67.51
1999 66.80
2000 66.03
2001 65.37
2002 64.68
2003 63.96
2004 63.20
2005 62.34
2006 61.09
2007 59.72
2008 58.16
2009 56.52
2010 54.94
2011 54.11
2012 53.35
2013 52.65
2014 51.94
2015 51.15
2016 50.42
2017 49.48
2018 48.44
2019 47.46
2020 46.62

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