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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Maldives was 25.52 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 95.75 in 1991 and a minimum value of 25.52 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 65.14
1961 67.39
1962 69.55
1963 71.72
1964 73.92
1965 76.11
1966 79.28
1967 82.46
1968 85.46
1969 88.05
1970 90.05
1971 90.84
1972 90.88
1973 90.35
1974 89.48
1975 88.40
1976 88.49
1977 88.16
1978 87.66
1979 87.28
1980 87.22
1981 87.46
1982 88.20
1983 89.18
1984 90.02
1985 90.57
1986 92.57
1987 93.82
1988 94.57
1989 95.15
1990 95.61
1991 95.75
1992 95.71
1993 95.28
1994 94.11
1995 92.06
1996 88.93
1997 85.23
1998 81.12
1999 76.83
2000 72.56
2001 66.98
2002 61.79
2003 57.05
2004 52.80
2005 49.09
2006 45.63
2007 42.62
2008 40.06
2009 37.88
2010 36.05
2011 34.06
2012 32.20
2013 30.61
2014 29.33
2015 28.35
2016 27.52
2017 26.90
2018 26.46
2019 26.04
2020 25.52

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