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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in China was 25.19 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 75.02 in 1966 and a minimum value of 24.86 in 2015.

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 70.50
1961 70.68
1962 71.88
1963 73.40
1964 74.33
1965 74.33
1966 75.02
1967 74.63
1968 73.68
1969 72.83
1970 72.36
1971 72.50
1972 72.52
1973 72.41
1974 71.97
1975 71.05
1976 69.51
1977 67.65
1978 65.49
1979 63.07
1980 60.51
1981 57.61
1982 54.92
1983 52.40
1984 50.08
1985 48.06
1986 46.74
1987 45.71
1988 44.93
1989 44.22
1990 43.46
1991 43.42
1992 42.73
1993 41.74
1994 40.92
1995 40.44
1996 39.05
1997 38.48
1998 38.22
1999 37.56
2000 36.24
2001 35.17
2002 33.43
2003 31.37
2004 29.54
2005 28.20
2006 27.14
2007 26.45
2008 26.06
2009 25.77
2010 25.47
2011 25.28
2012 25.10
2013 24.96
2014 24.88
2015 24.86
2016 24.92
2017 25.01
2018 25.11
2019 25.17
2020 25.19

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