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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Suriname was 40.28 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 101.50 in 1968 and a minimum value of 40.28 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 97.09
1961 98.38
1962 99.06
1963 99.29
1964 99.31
1965 99.18
1966 100.50
1967 101.28
1968 101.50
1969 101.10
1970 100.06
1971 99.18
1972 98.58
1973 98.22
1974 98.04
1975 97.89
1976 92.09
1977 86.46
1978 80.96
1979 75.82
1980 71.35
1981 67.43
1982 64.66
1983 62.67
1984 61.05
1985 59.59
1986 59.20
1987 58.26
1988 57.18
1989 56.43
1990 56.20
1991 56.03
1992 56.30
1993 56.79
1994 57.15
1995 57.16
1996 56.59
1997 55.81
1998 54.88
1999 53.89
2000 52.92
2001 52.33
2002 51.74
2003 51.15
2004 50.55
2005 49.89
2006 49.11
2007 48.24
2008 47.33
2009 46.44
2010 45.64
2011 44.92
2012 44.29
2013 43.73
2014 43.18
2015 42.61
2016 42.19
2017 41.72
2018 41.21
2019 40.73
2020 40.28

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