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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Brazil was 29.71 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 81.81 in 1963 and a minimum value of 29.71 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 80.41
1961 81.03
1962 81.52
1963 81.81
1964 81.79
1965 81.43
1966 81.33
1967 80.74
1968 79.82
1969 78.76
1970 77.66
1971 76.59
1972 75.48
1973 74.32
1974 73.06
1975 71.72
1976 70.52
1977 69.32
1978 68.14
1979 66.98
1980 65.87
1981 65.16
1982 64.40
1983 63.62
1984 62.84
1985 62.05
1986 61.45
1987 60.71
1988 59.87
1989 58.97
1990 58.04
1991 56.93
1992 55.89
1993 54.83
1994 53.67
1995 52.41
1996 51.22
1997 49.96
1998 48.67
1999 47.40
2000 46.19
2001 45.18
2002 44.13
2003 43.08
2004 42.05
2005 41.06
2006 40.04
2007 39.08
2008 38.16
2009 37.24
2010 36.31
2011 35.42
2012 34.56
2013 33.73
2014 32.95
2015 32.23
2016 31.66
2017 31.11
2018 30.59
2019 30.13
2020 29.71

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