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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Morocco was 40.79 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 98.95 in 1967 and a minimum value of 40.79 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 85.46
1961 88.07
1962 91.04
1963 93.96
1964 96.17
1965 97.31
1966 98.58
1967 98.95
1968 98.63
1969 97.99
1970 97.17
1971 96.35
1972 95.21
1973 93.81
1974 92.18
1975 90.37
1976 88.51
1977 86.58
1978 84.65
1979 82.80
1980 81.09
1981 79.92
1982 78.82
1983 77.77
1984 76.72
1985 75.60
1986 74.83
1987 73.79
1988 72.59
1989 71.40
1990 70.26
1991 68.87
1992 67.72
1993 66.63
1994 65.31
1995 63.67
1996 62.17
1997 60.29
1998 58.25
1999 56.33
2000 54.68
2001 53.00
2002 51.69
2003 50.61
2004 49.55
2005 48.44
2006 47.43
2007 46.33
2008 45.23
2009 44.31
2010 43.64
2011 43.02
2012 42.66
2013 42.48
2014 42.32
2015 42.10
2016 42.00
2017 41.73
2018 41.36
2019 41.03
2020 40.79

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