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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Canada was 23.86 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 57.95 in 1962 and a minimum value of 23.50 in 2016.

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 57.58
1961 57.92
1962 57.95
1963 57.70
1964 57.20
1965 56.47
1966 55.34
1967 53.86
1968 52.17
1969 50.43
1970 48.72
1971 46.75
1972 45.02
1973 43.42
1974 41.78
1975 40.07
1976 38.76
1977 37.31
1978 35.86
1979 34.58
1980 33.55
1981 32.76
1982 32.15
1983 31.72
1984 31.37
1985 31.08
1986 30.90
1987 30.74
1988 30.60
1989 30.49
1990 30.41
1991 30.40
1992 30.43
1993 30.43
1994 30.33
1995 30.11
1996 29.94
1997 29.58
1998 29.09
1999 28.57
2000 28.07
2001 27.50
2002 27.00
2003 26.53
2004 26.04
2005 25.54
2006 25.10
2007 24.68
2008 24.31
2009 24.01
2010 23.77
2011 23.74
2012 23.65
2013 23.56
2014 23.51
2015 23.53
2016 23.50
2017 23.59
2018 23.72
2019 23.83
2020 23.86

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