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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Bahrain was 23.12 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 91.49 in 1965 and a minimum value of 23.12 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 74.11
1961 77.85
1962 81.10
1963 84.49
1964 88.15
1965 91.49
1966 89.73
1967 88.21
1968 87.04
1969 86.03
1970 85.02
1971 82.04
1972 78.15
1973 74.12
1974 70.66
1975 68.04
1976 64.20
1977 61.15
1978 58.72
1979 56.59
1980 54.56
1981 53.65
1982 53.10
1983 52.80
1984 52.67
1985 52.58
1986 52.51
1987 52.09
1988 51.58
1989 51.00
1990 50.19
1991 49.66
1992 48.67
1993 47.41
1994 46.08
1995 44.91
1996 44.61
1997 44.22
1998 44.09
1999 44.30
2000 44.72
2001 42.40
2002 40.30
2003 38.49
2004 36.96
2005 35.64
2006 32.85
2007 30.61
2008 28.83
2009 27.39
2010 26.17
2011 26.26
2012 26.37
2013 26.56
2014 26.84
2015 27.14
2016 26.39
2017 25.51
2018 24.58
2019 23.77
2020 23.12

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