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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Croatia was 22.65 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 41.96 in 1960 and a minimum value of 21.88 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 41.96
1961 41.70
1962 41.20
1963 40.49
1964 39.67
1965 38.80
1966 38.05
1967 37.15
1968 36.19
1969 35.28
1970 34.51
1971 33.86
1972 33.43
1973 33.16
1974 32.89
1975 32.57
1976 32.41
1977 32.11
1978 31.75
1979 31.46
1980 31.27
1981 30.99
1982 30.83
1983 30.74
1984 30.60
1985 30.37
1986 30.23
1987 29.97
1988 29.62
1989 29.24
1990 28.83
1991 28.51
1992 28.19
1993 27.84
1994 27.49
1995 27.17
1996 26.73
1997 26.46
1998 26.29
1999 26.10
2000 25.81
2001 25.59
2002 25.07
2003 24.39
2004 23.82
2005 23.47
2006 23.01
2007 22.92
2008 23.06
2009 23.14
2010 23.05
2011 23.12
2012 22.88
2013 22.47
2014 22.12
2015 21.96
2016 21.88
2017 22.03
2018 22.31
2019 22.55
2020 22.65

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