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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Iran was 36.02 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 90.98 in 1988 and a minimum value of 33.40 in 2012.

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 80.24
1961 81.95
1962 83.72
1963 85.27
1964 86.24
1965 86.48
1966 86.91
1967 86.61
1968 85.80
1969 84.84
1970 83.88
1971 83.37
1972 82.78
1973 82.16
1974 81.58
1975 81.09
1976 80.93
1977 80.85
1978 80.87
1979 81.09
1980 81.59
1981 83.08
1982 84.65
1983 86.19
1984 87.53
1985 88.53
1986 89.99
1987 90.82
1988 90.98
1989 90.40
1990 89.04
1991 87.49
1992 85.23
1993 82.41
1994 79.21
1995 75.76
1996 71.39
1997 67.22
1998 63.15
1999 59.09
2000 55.08
2001 51.34
2002 47.78
2003 44.52
2004 41.70
2005 39.35
2006 37.67
2007 36.29
2008 35.22
2009 34.45
2010 33.96
2011 33.57
2012 33.40
2013 33.44
2014 33.64
2015 33.96
2016 34.31
2017 34.78
2018 35.30
2019 35.74
2020 36.02

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