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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Italy was 20.38 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 38.43 in 1973 and a minimum value of 20.38 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 38.34
1961 38.29
1962 38.11
1963 37.86
1964 37.70
1965 37.67
1966 37.82
1967 37.95
1968 38.08
1969 38.23
1970 38.39
1971 38.38
1972 38.42
1973 38.43
1974 38.29
1975 37.93
1976 37.55
1977 36.90
1978 36.03
1979 35.04
1980 33.98
1981 32.82
1982 31.66
1983 30.51
1984 29.37
1985 28.26
1986 27.32
1987 26.40
1988 25.52
1989 24.72
1990 24.00
1991 23.45
1992 22.97
1993 22.57
1994 22.22
1995 21.92
1996 21.71
1997 21.53
1998 21.39
1999 21.29
2000 21.26
2001 21.20
2002 21.22
2003 21.29
2004 21.36
2005 21.41
2006 21.50
2007 21.53
2008 21.53
2009 21.51
2010 21.50
2011 21.55
2012 21.56
2013 21.53
2014 21.45
2015 21.32
2016 21.20
2017 21.05
2018 20.85
2019 20.63
2020 20.38

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