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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Brunei was 30.96 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 92.68 in 1965 and a minimum value of 30.96 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 82.70
1961 84.76
1962 87.57
1963 90.41
1964 92.26
1965 92.68
1966 91.19
1967 88.58
1968 85.47
1969 82.59
1970 80.29
1971 78.10
1972 76.51
1973 75.24
1974 73.89
1975 72.32
1976 71.94
1977 70.79
1978 69.36
1979 68.01
1980 66.82
1981 66.25
1982 65.88
1983 65.59
1984 65.18
1985 64.60
1986 62.23
1987 59.99
1988 58.04
1989 56.46
1990 55.21
1991 54.64
1992 54.01
1993 53.35
1994 52.60
1995 51.66
1996 50.84
1997 49.76
1998 48.51
1999 47.17
2000 45.77
2001 44.69
2002 43.48
2003 42.33
2004 41.26
2005 40.21
2006 39.62
2007 38.85
2008 38.06
2009 37.35
2010 36.74
2011 35.85
2012 35.20
2013 34.70
2014 34.16
2015 33.53
2016 33.26
2017 32.66
2018 31.94
2019 31.34
2020 30.96

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