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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Bangladesh was 39.33 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 86.96 in 1977 and a minimum value of 39.33 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 76.11
1961 77.35
1962 78.21
1963 78.87
1964 79.56
1965 80.39
1966 81.68
1967 83.00
1968 84.23
1969 85.09
1970 85.39
1971 85.98
1972 86.31
1973 86.41
1974 86.41
1975 86.46
1976 86.90
1977 86.96
1978 86.75
1979 86.30
1980 85.65
1981 85.42
1982 84.82
1983 83.98
1984 83.05
1985 82.08
1986 81.29
1987 80.41
1988 79.41
1989 78.24
1990 76.87
1991 75.72
1992 74.40
1993 72.96
1994 71.45
1995 69.91
1996 68.47
1997 66.99
1998 65.49
1999 63.97
2000 62.44
2001 61.21
2002 59.94
2003 58.65
2004 57.34
2005 56.03
2006 54.98
2007 53.90
2008 52.79
2009 51.68
2010 50.58
2011 49.31
2012 48.11
2013 46.95
2014 45.79
2015 44.62
2016 43.49
2017 42.36
2018 41.27
2019 40.25
2020 39.33

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