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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Lithuania was 24.22 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 43.22 in 1968 and a minimum value of 21.56 in 2012.

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 41.79
1961 41.93
1962 42.05
1963 42.27
1964 42.57
1965 42.86
1966 43.00
1967 43.14
1968 43.22
1969 43.18
1970 43.03
1971 42.42
1972 41.79
1973 41.11
1974 40.33
1975 39.44
1976 38.81
1977 37.99
1978 37.11
1979 36.31
1980 35.70
1981 35.08
1982 34.69
1983 34.46
1984 34.28
1985 34.09
1986 34.09
1987 34.05
1988 33.99
1989 33.95
1990 33.90
1991 33.88
1992 33.80
1993 33.64
1994 33.38
1995 32.99
1996 32.64
1997 32.21
1998 31.70
1999 31.08
2000 30.34
2001 29.19
2002 28.08
2003 26.99
2004 25.94
2005 24.94
2006 24.19
2007 23.45
2008 22.77
2009 22.18
2010 21.73
2011 21.60
2012 21.56
2013 21.60
2014 21.69
2015 21.87
2016 22.05
2017 22.32
2018 22.75
2019 23.39
2020 24.22

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