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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in IDA only was 65.97 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 86.58 in 1982 and a minimum value of 65.97 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 78.62
1961 79.64
1962 80.49
1963 81.16
1964 81.67
1965 82.01
1966 82.96
1967 83.63
1968 84.07
1969 84.32
1970 84.37
1971 84.97
1972 85.35
1973 85.56
1974 85.63
1975 85.59
1976 86.03
1977 86.25
1978 86.31
1979 86.25
1980 86.10
1981 86.45
1982 86.58
1983 86.55
1984 86.38
1985 86.10
1986 86.26
1987 86.19
1988 85.94
1989 85.56
1990 85.08
1991 84.81
1992 84.40
1993 83.86
1994 83.19
1995 82.40
1996 82.04
1997 81.53
1998 80.89
1999 80.17
2000 79.41
2001 78.96
2002 78.43
2003 77.84
2004 77.21
2005 76.56
2006 76.12
2007 75.62
2008 75.08
2009 74.47
2010 73.80
2011 73.16
2012 72.44
2013 71.67
2014 70.85
2015 70.03
2016 69.26
2017 68.46
2018 67.64
2019 66.81
2020 65.97

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