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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Bhutan was 36.13 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 82.36 in 1987 and a minimum value of 36.13 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 75.80
1961 76.27
1962 76.02
1963 75.43
1964 75.03
1965 75.05
1966 75.53
1967 76.22
1968 77.02
1969 77.67
1970 78.04
1971 79.02
1972 79.59
1973 79.86
1974 80.01
1975 80.07
1976 80.72
1977 81.12
1978 81.32
1979 81.31
1980 81.08
1981 81.81
1982 82.22
1983 82.36
1984 82.34
1985 82.22
1986 82.36
1987 82.36
1988 82.20
1989 81.73
1990 80.84
1991 80.89
1992 80.74
1993 80.40
1994 80.00
1995 79.69
1996 78.36
1997 76.75
1998 74.95
1999 72.95
2000 70.75
2001 68.34
2002 65.78
2003 63.15
2004 60.53
2005 57.97
2006 56.09
2007 54.24
2008 52.43
2009 50.67
2010 48.95
2011 47.15
2012 45.41
2013 43.76
2014 42.26
2015 40.94
2016 39.67
2017 38.64
2018 37.77
2019 36.96
2020 36.13

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