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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in India was 38.89 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 75.61 in 1966 and a minimum value of 38.89 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 71.61
1961 72.49
1962 73.54
1963 74.55
1964 75.18
1965 75.29
1966 75.61
1967 75.36
1968 74.74
1969 74.02
1970 73.35
1971 73.03
1972 72.65
1973 72.22
1974 71.67
1975 71.01
1976 70.77
1977 70.34
1978 69.79
1979 69.22
1980 68.68
1981 68.51
1982 68.33
1983 68.12
1984 67.80
1985 67.35
1986 67.26
1987 66.92
1988 66.42
1989 65.83
1990 65.20
1991 64.70
1992 64.12
1993 63.47
1994 62.69
1995 61.79
1996 60.99
1997 60.09
1998 59.10
1999 58.07
2000 57.01
2001 56.15
2002 55.23
2003 54.28
2004 53.32
2005 52.36
2006 51.55
2007 50.73
2008 49.89
2009 49.01
2010 48.06
2011 47.18
2012 46.18
2013 45.13
2014 44.10
2015 43.13
2016 42.15
2017 41.30
2018 40.52
2019 39.73
2020 38.89

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