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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Costa Rica was 30.22 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 89.22 in 1962 and a minimum value of 30.22 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 87.69
1961 88.86
1962 89.22
1963 89.07
1964 88.78
1965 88.45
1966 88.29
1967 87.83
1968 87.06
1969 85.89
1970 84.26
1971 82.11
1972 79.75
1973 77.23
1974 74.64
1975 72.10
1976 69.67
1977 67.50
1978 65.56
1979 63.80
1980 62.21
1981 61.34
1982 60.40
1983 59.56
1984 58.99
1985 58.76
1986 58.73
1987 58.96
1988 59.32
1989 59.57
1990 59.56
1991 59.36
1992 58.83
1993 58.04
1994 57.10
1995 56.07
1996 54.90
1997 53.68
1998 52.36
1999 50.89
2000 49.26
2001 47.80
2002 46.21
2003 44.55
2004 42.94
2005 41.44
2006 40.03
2007 38.78
2008 37.64
2009 36.57
2010 35.54
2011 34.74
2012 33.96
2013 33.23
2014 32.58
2015 32.02
2016 31.58
2017 31.19
2018 30.85
2019 30.53
2020 30.22

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