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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Malaysia was 33.80 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 91.82 in 1964 and a minimum value of 33.80 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 89.05
1961 89.99
1962 90.94
1963 91.66
1964 91.82
1965 91.30
1966 90.77
1967 89.37
1968 87.53
1969 85.78
1970 84.39
1971 82.32
1972 80.90
1973 79.79
1974 78.57
1975 77.06
1976 75.67
1977 74.00
1978 72.23
1979 70.65
1980 69.38
1981 68.40
1982 67.66
1983 67.10
1984 66.60
1985 66.10
1986 65.56
1987 64.90
1988 64.13
1989 63.31
1990 62.51
1991 61.73
1992 61.00
1993 60.28
1994 59.53
1995 58.71
1996 57.72
1997 56.69
1998 55.61
1999 54.44
2000 53.18
2001 52.22
2002 50.98
2003 49.56
2004 48.12
2005 46.76
2006 45.85
2007 44.92
2008 43.93
2009 42.84
2010 41.67
2011 40.39
2012 39.27
2013 38.24
2014 37.28
2015 36.40
2016 35.78
2017 35.17
2018 34.61
2019 34.15
2020 33.80

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