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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Mexico was 38.82 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 93.69 in 1967 and a minimum value of 38.82 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 89.83
1961 90.61
1962 91.48
1963 92.31
1964 92.90
1965 93.20
1966 93.56
1967 93.69
1968 93.63
1969 93.43
1970 93.15
1971 93.14
1972 92.96
1973 92.64
1974 92.20
1975 91.63
1976 91.10
1977 90.39
1978 89.53
1979 88.49
1980 87.26
1981 85.46
1982 83.63
1983 81.79
1984 79.93
1985 78.06
1986 76.20
1987 74.42
1988 72.71
1989 71.04
1990 69.40
1991 67.92
1992 66.48
1993 65.10
1994 63.83
1995 62.68
1996 61.21
1997 59.87
1998 58.64
1999 57.49
2000 56.38
2001 55.09
2002 53.94
2003 52.89
2004 51.89
2005 50.91
2006 49.98
2007 48.94
2008 47.85
2009 46.80
2010 45.86
2011 44.96
2012 44.18
2013 43.49
2014 42.81
2015 42.10
2016 41.48
2017 40.80
2018 40.10
2019 39.44
2020 38.82

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