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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Argentina was 38.06 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 51.42 in 1988 and a minimum value of 38.06 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 48.96
1961 48.84
1962 48.59
1963 48.25
1964 47.87
1965 47.50
1966 47.25
1967 46.98
1968 46.71
1969 46.47
1970 46.28
1971 46.25
1972 46.27
1973 46.34
1974 46.47
1975 46.68
1976 47.16
1977 47.76
1978 48.40
1979 48.99
1980 49.48
1981 50.20
1982 50.58
1983 50.76
1984 50.94
1985 51.17
1986 51.10
1987 51.24
1988 51.42
1989 51.39
1990 51.06
1991 50.89
1992 50.41
1993 49.76
1994 49.11
1995 48.54
1996 48.02
1997 47.52
1998 47.04
1999 46.55
2000 46.05
2001 45.47
2002 44.96
2003 44.48
2004 43.98
2005 43.42
2006 42.97
2007 42.41
2008 41.82
2009 41.27
2010 40.83
2011 40.42
2012 40.11
2013 39.87
2014 39.63
2015 39.36
2016 39.15
2017 38.90
2018 38.62
2019 38.33
2020 38.06

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