Mexico - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Mexico was 50.27 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 101.12 in 1968 and 50.27 in 2020.

Definition: Age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents--people younger than 15 or older than 64--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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 96.51
1961 97.41
1962 98.40
1963 99.34
1964 100.04
1965 100.43
1966 100.89
1967 101.12
1968 101.12
1969 100.98
1970 100.72
1971 100.74
1972 100.56
1973 100.23
1974 99.79
1975 99.22
1976 98.71
1977 98.04
1978 97.20
1979 96.17
1980 94.91
1981 93.07
1982 91.18
1983 89.27
1984 87.36
1985 85.47
1986 83.62
1987 81.88
1988 80.21
1989 78.59
1990 77.01
1991 75.61
1992 74.25
1993 72.96
1994 71.78
1995 70.73
1996 69.35
1997 68.10
1998 66.96
1999 65.89
2000 64.87
2001 63.66
2002 62.60
2003 61.65
2004 60.76
2005 59.90
2006 59.07
2007 58.13
2008 57.15
2009 56.22
2010 55.40
2011 54.61
2012 53.95
2013 53.39
2014 52.86
2015 52.35
2016 51.93
2017 51.47
2018 51.01
2019 50.61
2020 50.27

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

General Comments: Relevance to gender indicator: this indicator implies the dependency burden that the working-age population bears in relation to children and the elderly. Many times single or widowed women who are the sole caregiver of a household have a high dependency

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population