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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Kiribati was 59.99 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 92.20 in 1964 and a minimum value of 56.87 in 2016.

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 88.57
1961 90.40
1962 91.57
1963 92.12
1964 92.20
1965 91.98
1966 91.84
1967 91.19
1968 90.09
1969 88.58
1970 86.64
1971 84.45
1972 82.11
1973 79.70
1974 77.32
1975 75.10
1976 73.16
1977 71.74
1978 70.70
1979 69.80
1980 68.91
1981 69.39
1982 69.23
1983 68.68
1984 68.34
1985 68.62
1986 68.34
1987 68.94
1988 70.05
1989 71.05
1990 71.60
1991 72.89
1992 73.70
1993 74.04
1994 74.16
1995 74.22
1996 73.87
1997 73.51
1998 72.97
1999 71.95
2000 70.48
2001 69.46
2002 67.45
2003 65.03
2004 63.07
2005 62.01
2006 60.10
2007 59.87
2008 60.39
2009 60.53
2010 59.84
2011 60.07
2012 59.25
2013 57.96
2014 57.08
2015 56.97
2016 56.87
2017 57.59
2018 58.74
2019 59.65
2020 59.99

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