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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Channel Islands was 22.31 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 33.63 in 1970 and a minimum value of 22.31 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 32.95
1961 33.16
1962 32.96
1963 32.83
1964 32.95
1965 33.25
1966 33.21
1967 32.96
1968 32.95
1969 33.25
1970 33.63
1971 33.48
1972 33.07
1973 32.47
1974 31.72
1975 30.86
1976 30.30
1977 29.64
1978 28.93
1979 28.18
1980 27.40
1981 26.64
1982 25.83
1983 25.09
1984 24.49
1985 24.02
1986 23.75
1987 23.51
1988 23.38
1989 23.32
1990 23.28
1991 23.59
1992 23.87
1993 24.15
1994 24.45
1995 24.74
1996 24.89
1997 24.99
1998 25.04
1999 25.01
2000 24.91
2001 24.64
2002 24.34
2003 24.07
2004 23.86
2005 23.68
2006 23.60
2007 23.43
2008 23.17
2009 22.85
2010 22.50
2011 22.72
2012 22.83
2013 22.87
2014 22.84
2015 22.78
2016 22.77
2017 22.65
2018 22.50
2019 22.38
2020 22.31

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