Dem. People's Rep. Korea - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Dem. People's Rep. Korea was 28.02 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 77.45 in 1971 and a minimum value of 28.02 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 63.89
1961 65.70
1962 64.20
1963 61.36
1964 59.96
1965 61.17
1966 60.98
1967 64.45
1968 69.72
1969 73.82
1970 75.31
1971 77.45
1972 76.50
1973 73.79
1974 71.27
1975 69.67
1976 67.72
1977 66.23
1978 64.93
1979 63.33
1980 61.28
1981 58.20
1982 55.70
1983 53.42
1984 50.99
1985 48.33
1986 46.87
1987 44.66
1988 42.29
1989 40.51
1990 39.58
1991 38.72
1992 38.72
1993 39.24
1994 39.65
1995 39.66
1996 39.81
1997 39.54
1998 38.98
1999 38.44
2000 38.05
2001 37.67
2002 37.42
2003 37.23
2004 36.92
2005 36.43
2006 35.97
2007 35.30
2008 34.49
2009 33.69
2010 33.00
2011 32.26
2012 31.70
2013 31.24
2014 30.74
2015 30.16
2016 29.73
2017 29.20
2018 28.67
2019 28.26
2020 28.02

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