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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Mauritius was 23.74 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 92.45 in 1963 and a minimum value of 23.74 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 91.53
1961 91.76
1962 92.15
1963 92.45
1964 92.21
1965 91.20
1966 90.39
1967 88.59
1968 86.24
1969 83.86
1970 81.59
1971 78.37
1972 75.85
1973 73.70
1974 71.44
1975 68.89
1976 65.73
1977 62.87
1978 60.71
1979 59.40
1980 58.64
1981 56.98
1982 55.29
1983 53.55
1984 51.79
1985 50.08
1986 48.66
1987 47.21
1988 45.82
1989 44.63
1990 43.72
1991 42.70
1992 42.13
1993 41.80
1994 41.43
1995 40.83
1996 40.68
1997 40.01
1998 39.11
1999 38.33
2000 37.82
2001 37.13
2002 36.89
2003 36.85
2004 36.61
2005 36.00
2006 35.38
2007 34.37
2008 33.16
2009 32.05
2010 31.16
2011 30.15
2012 29.36
2013 28.75
2014 28.14
2015 27.46
2016 26.75
2017 25.97
2018 25.16
2019 24.40
2020 23.74

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