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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Guatemala was 54.11 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 92.36 in 1984 and a minimum value of 54.11 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 89.30
1961 90.16
1962 91.07
1963 91.82
1964 92.09
1965 91.81
1966 91.93
1967 91.53
1968 90.78
1969 89.91
1970 89.07
1971 89.09
1972 89.01
1973 88.88
1974 88.73
1975 88.59
1976 89.19
1977 89.76
1978 90.27
1979 90.68
1980 90.98
1981 91.59
1982 92.03
1983 92.29
1984 92.36
1985 92.24
1986 92.21
1987 91.92
1988 91.42
1989 90.85
1990 90.28
1991 89.69
1992 89.29
1993 88.91
1994 88.38
1995 87.63
1996 87.13
1997 86.30
1998 85.31
1999 84.39
2000 83.64
2001 82.65
2002 81.85
2003 81.08
2004 80.12
2005 78.87
2006 77.40
2007 75.61
2008 73.65
2009 71.70
2010 69.87
2011 67.86
2012 66.09
2013 64.45
2014 62.81
2015 61.14
2016 59.68
2017 58.17
2018 56.68
2019 55.32
2020 54.11

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