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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Bolivia was 48.47 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 76.26 in 1961 and a minimum value of 48.47 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 76.01
1961 76.26
1962 76.26
1963 76.06
1964 75.72
1965 75.27
1966 75.49
1967 75.48
1968 75.30
1969 75.03
1970 74.69
1971 74.94
1972 75.03
1973 74.99
1974 74.84
1975 74.58
1976 74.85
1977 74.92
1978 74.83
1979 74.58
1980 74.18
1981 74.27
1982 74.13
1983 73.86
1984 73.51
1985 73.13
1986 72.94
1987 72.70
1988 72.40
1989 72.00
1990 71.48
1991 71.25
1992 70.81
1993 70.22
1994 69.58
1995 68.93
1996 68.52
1997 68.05
1998 67.53
1999 66.91
2000 66.19
2001 65.60
2002 64.92
2003 64.19
2004 63.40
2005 62.56
2006 61.79
2007 60.92
2008 59.98
2009 59.02
2010 58.07
2011 57.09
2012 56.15
2013 55.23
2014 54.27
2015 53.26
2016 52.33
2017 51.34
2018 50.33
2019 49.37
2020 48.47

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