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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Grenada was 35.79 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 109.62 in 1967 and a minimum value of 34.56 in 2014.

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 106.76
1961 108.49
1962 109.15
1963 109.14
1964 109.19
1965 109.48
1966 109.55
1967 109.62
1968 109.58
1969 109.20
1970 108.35
1971 100.93
1972 95.22
1973 90.84
1974 86.99
1975 83.14
1976 81.47
1977 79.12
1978 76.71
1979 75.38
1980 75.62
1981 72.92
1982 71.33
1983 70.49
1984 69.68
1985 68.44
1986 69.26
1987 69.94
1988 70.55
1989 71.53
1990 73.20
1991 72.60
1992 72.24
1993 71.89
1994 71.27
1995 70.16
1996 67.87
1997 65.60
1998 63.18
1999 60.45
2000 57.51
2001 54.51
2002 51.50
2003 48.75
2004 46.47
2005 44.59
2006 42.77
2007 41.12
2008 39.49
2009 37.81
2010 36.19
2011 35.84
2012 35.30
2013 34.80
2014 34.56
2015 34.60
2016 34.59
2017 34.86
2018 35.26
2019 35.61
2020 35.79

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