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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Kuwait was 28.43 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 85.15 in 1974 and a minimum value of 27.65 in 2015.

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 54.12
1961 56.25
1962 58.38
1963 60.65
1964 62.83
1965 64.82
1966 68.65
1967 71.88
1968 74.95
1969 78.03
1970 80.91
1971 82.08
1972 83.36
1973 84.54
1974 85.15
1975 84.95
1976 82.21
1977 78.83
1978 75.23
1979 71.98
1980 69.37
1981 66.87
1982 65.19
1983 64.10
1984 63.02
1985 61.63
1986 61.32
1987 60.15
1988 58.52
1989 56.73
1990 54.74
1991 51.91
1995 45.24
1996 43.97
1997 42.83
1998 42.00
1999 41.31
2000 40.51
2001 39.75
2002 38.72
2003 37.60
2004 36.67
2005 36.15
2006 34.60
2007 33.46
2008 32.63
2009 31.88
2010 31.04
2011 30.57
2012 29.87
2013 29.05
2014 28.29
2015 27.65
2016 27.85
2017 28.12
2018 28.37
2019 28.51
2020 28.43

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