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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Vanuatu was 66.25 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 90.48 in 1962 and a minimum value of 66.02 in 2010.

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 90.05
1961 90.38
1962 90.48
1963 90.44
1964 90.23
1965 89.80
1966 89.61
1967 89.26
1968 88.76
1969 88.16
1970 87.55
1971 87.39
1972 87.17
1973 86.96
1974 86.71
1975 86.34
1976 86.11
1977 85.75
1978 85.37
1979 85.05
1980 84.77
1981 84.28
1982 84.07
1983 84.09
1984 84.29
1985 84.57
1986 83.94
1987 83.49
1988 83.29
1989 83.29
1990 83.40
1991 82.47
1992 81.69
1993 80.99
1994 80.28
1995 79.43
1996 78.68
1997 77.79
1998 76.84
1999 75.95
2000 75.17
2001 74.01
2002 72.76
2003 71.54
2004 70.46
2005 69.54
2006 67.85
2007 66.90
2008 66.52
2009 66.31
2010 66.02
2011 66.59
2012 66.58
2013 66.65
2014 67.27
2015 68.30
2016 67.76
2017 67.63
2018 67.55
2019 67.12
2020 66.25

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