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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Guam was 36.37 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 68.61 in 1960 and a minimum value of 36.37 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 68.61
1961 68.51
1962 67.79
1963 67.15
1964 66.85
1965 66.68
1966 66.37
1967 65.80
1968 65.58
1969 65.69
1970 65.82
1971 64.15
1972 62.52
1973 61.34
1974 60.61
1975 60.15
1976 58.95
1977 57.70
1978 56.55
1979 55.58
1980 54.81
1981 53.44
1982 52.29
1983 51.34
1984 50.54
1985 49.82
1986 48.78
1987 47.74
1988 46.76
1989 45.87
1990 45.14
1991 45.62
1992 46.24
1993 46.92
1994 47.56
1995 48.00
1996 48.38
1997 48.49
1998 48.32
1999 47.97
2000 47.52
2001 47.39
2002 47.20
2003 46.94
2004 46.57
2005 46.04
2006 45.43
2007 44.65
2008 43.78
2009 42.93
2010 42.16
2011 41.37
2012 40.69
2013 40.09
2014 39.51
2015 38.92
2016 38.41
2017 37.82
2018 37.24
2019 36.75
2020 36.37

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