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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in IDA total was 66.10 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 85.87 in 1983 and a minimum value of 66.10 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 77.22
1961 78.25
1962 79.10
1963 79.79
1964 80.35
1965 80.77
1966 81.76
1967 82.51
1968 83.05
1969 83.40
1970 83.57
1971 84.19
1972 84.61
1973 84.85
1974 84.95
1975 84.94
1976 85.35
1977 85.54
1978 85.57
1979 85.49
1980 85.35
1981 85.69
1982 85.85
1983 85.87
1984 85.76
1985 85.55
1986 85.76
1987 85.77
1988 85.60
1989 85.30
1990 84.86
1991 84.70
1992 84.37
1993 83.87
1994 83.24
1995 82.48
1996 82.07
1997 81.51
1998 80.83
1999 80.05
2000 79.21
2001 78.70
2002 78.08
2003 77.40
2004 76.69
2005 75.97
2006 75.47
2007 74.93
2008 74.35
2009 73.72
2010 73.05
2011 72.47
2012 71.83
2013 71.14
2014 70.42
2015 69.68
2016 69.03
2017 68.34
2018 67.62
2019 66.87
2020 66.10

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