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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Lower middle income was 45.91 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 77.51 in 1967 and a minimum value of 45.91 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 72.45
1961 73.54
1962 74.66
1963 75.69
1964 76.42
1965 76.77
1966 77.35
1967 77.51
1968 77.36
1969 77.06
1970 76.69
1971 76.59
1972 76.38
1973 76.07
1974 75.64
1975 75.11
1976 74.96
1977 74.62
1978 74.17
1979 73.68
1980 73.21
1981 73.04
1982 72.84
1983 72.60
1984 72.26
1985 71.80
1986 71.66
1987 71.32
1988 70.81
1989 70.20
1990 69.53
1991 68.98
1992 68.34
1993 67.58
1994 66.69
1995 65.68
1996 64.74
1997 63.69
1998 62.55
1999 61.36
2000 60.17
2001 59.23
2002 58.28
2003 57.32
2004 56.38
2005 55.46
2006 54.66
2007 53.88
2008 53.13
2009 52.41
2010 51.70
2011 51.08
2012 50.44
2013 49.80
2014 49.18
2015 48.59
2016 48.03
2017 47.51
2018 46.99
2019 46.46
2020 45.91

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