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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Egypt was 55.84 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 79.09 in 1962 and a minimum value of 51.96 in 2010.

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 77.85
1961 79.08
1962 79.09
1963 78.37
1964 77.59
1965 77.07
1966 77.25
1967 77.54
1968 77.82
1969 77.82
1970 77.39
1971 77.56
1972 77.27
1973 76.66
1974 75.99
1975 75.38
1976 75.14
1977 74.99
1978 74.89
1979 74.74
1980 74.51
1981 74.57
1982 74.50
1983 74.39
1984 74.32
1985 74.32
1986 74.52
1987 74.73
1988 74.90
1989 74.88
1990 74.59
1991 74.46
1992 73.85
1993 72.90
1994 71.81
1995 70.67
1996 69.16
1997 67.82
1998 66.51
1999 65.02
2000 63.30
2001 61.81
2002 60.06
2003 58.25
2004 56.61
2005 55.25
2006 54.12
2007 53.23
2008 52.58
2009 52.15
2010 51.96
2011 52.02
2012 52.44
2013 53.07
2014 53.67
2015 54.09
2016 54.97
2017 55.34
2018 55.43
2019 55.57
2020 55.84

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