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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Lebanon was 37.20 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 85.44 in 1964 and a minimum value of 37.20 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 79.35
1961 80.84
1962 82.69
1963 84.44
1964 85.44
1965 85.40
1966 85.14
1967 84.01
1968 82.31
1969 80.53
1970 78.97
1971 77.49
1972 76.12
1973 74.85
1974 73.52
1975 72.02
1976 71.63
1977 71.33
1978 71.06
1979 70.79
1980 70.53
1981 70.60
1982 70.46
1983 70.19
1984 69.88
1985 69.56
1986 68.44
1987 67.41
1988 66.42
1989 65.51
1990 64.81
1991 61.61
1992 58.83
1993 56.48
1994 54.41
1995 52.43
1996 52.06
1997 51.47
1998 50.70
1999 49.88
2000 49.19
2001 49.54
2002 49.64
2003 49.47
2004 48.86
2005 47.63
2006 45.79
2007 43.67
2008 41.39
2009 39.37
2010 38.06
2011 38.21
2012 38.77
2013 39.70
2014 40.64
2015 41.21
2016 40.60
2017 39.88
2018 39.01
2019 38.08
2020 37.20

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