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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in French Polynesia was 32.34 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 89.70 in 1966 and a minimum value of 32.34 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 79.84
1961 80.37
1962 82.52
1963 85.54
1964 88.17
1965 89.65
1966 89.70
1967 89.35
1968 88.96
1969 88.77
1970 88.60
1971 87.27
1972 85.09
1973 82.58
1974 80.24
1975 78.21
1976 76.39
1977 74.94
1978 73.60
1979 72.05
1980 70.13
1981 68.53
1982 66.55
1983 64.31
1984 62.10
1985 60.22
1986 59.23
1987 58.59
1988 58.27
1989 58.05
1990 57.74
1991 57.64
1992 57.18
1993 56.50
1994 55.76
1995 55.05
1996 54.00
1997 53.17
1998 52.34
1999 51.25
2000 49.84
2001 48.40
2002 46.72
2003 44.99
2004 43.44
2005 42.12
2006 40.83
2007 39.81
2008 38.98
2009 38.18
2010 37.38
2011 36.66
2012 35.82
2013 35.00
2014 34.43
2015 34.17
2016 33.36
2017 33.07
2018 33.01
2019 32.82
2020 32.34

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