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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Low income was 75.83 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 87.58 in 1987 and a minimum value of 75.83 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 78.62
1961 79.55
1962 79.93
1963 80.01
1964 80.09
1965 80.32
1966 81.09
1967 81.98
1968 82.83
1969 83.42
1970 83.67
1971 84.67
1972 85.19
1973 85.38
1974 85.44
1975 85.47
1976 85.88
1977 86.17
1978 86.37
1979 86.45
1980 86.38
1981 86.85
1982 87.14
1983 87.26
1984 87.20
1985 87.02
1986 87.45
1987 87.58
1988 87.51
1989 87.39
1990 87.25
1991 87.33
1992 87.33
1993 87.25
1994 87.05
1995 86.69
1996 87.02
1997 87.13
1998 87.08
1999 86.93
2000 86.73
2001 86.78
2002 86.69
2003 86.47
2004 86.18
2005 85.80
2006 85.67
2007 85.42
2008 85.06
2009 84.58
2010 83.98
2011 83.44
2012 82.77
2013 81.99
2014 81.14
2015 80.24
2016 79.47
2017 78.64
2018 77.76
2019 76.82
2020 75.83

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