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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Cyprus was 24.02 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 63.96 in 1960 and a minimum value of 24.02 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 63.96
1961 63.84
1962 62.94
1963 61.44
1964 59.72
1965 58.03
1966 57.02
1967 55.91
1968 54.77
1969 53.62
1970 52.50
1971 50.31
1972 48.26
1973 46.59
1974 45.33
1975 44.29
1976 42.97
1977 41.65
1978 40.40
1979 39.20
1980 38.06
1981 38.15
1982 38.14
1983 38.13
1984 38.16
1985 38.22
1986 38.54
1987 38.67
1988 38.83
1989 39.12
1990 39.46
1991 39.17
1992 38.84
1993 38.45
1994 37.93
1995 37.25
1996 36.88
1997 36.14
1998 35.21
1999 34.23
2000 33.25
2001 32.46
2002 31.61
2003 30.74
2004 29.82
2005 28.88
2006 28.15
2007 27.39
2008 26.64
2009 25.91
2010 25.21
2011 24.91
2012 24.62
2013 24.38
2014 24.19
2015 24.04
2016 24.10
2017 24.14
2018 24.16
2019 24.13
2020 24.02

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