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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Chile was 28.08 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 70.44 in 1964 and a minimum value of 28.08 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 69.45
1961 69.75
1962 70.12
1963 70.42
1964 70.44
1965 70.10
1966 69.89
1967 69.28
1968 68.40
1969 67.43
1970 66.43
1971 65.32
1972 64.20
1973 63.06
1974 61.87
1975 60.61
1976 59.33
1977 58.06
1978 56.80
1979 55.56
1980 54.36
1981 53.29
1982 52.23
1983 51.21
1984 50.32
1985 49.58
1986 48.84
1987 48.29
1988 47.86
1989 47.48
1990 47.10
1991 46.85
1992 46.53
1993 46.17
1994 45.77
1995 45.33
1996 44.86
1997 44.28
1998 43.61
1999 42.86
2000 42.04
2001 41.01
2002 40.00
2003 38.99
2004 37.94
2005 36.87
2006 35.85
2007 34.84
2008 33.87
2009 32.99
2010 32.21
2011 31.63
2012 31.09
2013 30.62
2014 30.22
2015 29.88
2016 29.50
2017 29.11
2018 28.75
2019 28.41
2020 28.08

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