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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Ireland was 32.25 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 53.49 in 1960 and a minimum value of 29.15 in 2005.

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 53.49
1961 53.45
1962 53.39
1963 53.31
1964 53.20
1965 53.09
1966 52.98
1967 52.73
1968 52.45
1969 52.34
1970 52.49
1971 52.19
1972 52.28
1973 52.58
1974 52.80
1975 52.81
1976 53.10
1977 52.98
1978 52.61
1979 52.21
1980 51.87
1981 51.62
1982 51.51
1983 51.40
1984 51.07
1985 50.39
1986 49.79
1987 48.86
1988 47.65
1989 46.35
1990 45.07
1991 43.36
1992 41.84
1993 40.42
1994 38.99
1995 37.54
1996 36.12
1997 34.75
1998 33.48
1999 32.40
2000 31.56
2001 30.72
2002 30.06
2003 29.59
2004 29.29
2005 29.15
2006 29.29
2007 29.54
2008 29.86
2009 30.19
2010 30.48
2011 31.18
2012 31.82
2013 32.40
2014 32.95
2015 33.48
2016 33.42
2017 33.29
2018 33.07
2019 32.73
2020 32.25

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