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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Nepal was 44.08 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 78.50 in 1990 and a minimum value of 44.08 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 70.85
1961 71.55
1962 72.62
1963 73.77
1964 74.49
1965 74.59
1966 75.01
1967 74.82
1968 74.24
1969 73.60
1970 73.07
1971 73.19
1972 73.21
1973 73.20
1974 73.17
1975 73.12
1976 73.63
1977 74.07
1978 74.43
1979 74.71
1980 74.88
1981 75.59
1982 76.09
1983 76.43
1984 76.68
1985 76.84
1986 77.46
1987 77.94
1988 78.27
1989 78.46
1990 78.50
1991 78.32
1992 77.92
1993 77.33
1994 76.62
1995 75.83
1996 75.66
1997 75.45
1998 75.19
1999 74.77
2000 74.12
2001 73.46
2002 72.63
2003 71.67
2004 70.65
2005 69.59
2006 67.83
2007 66.30
2008 64.89
2009 63.44
2010 61.82
2011 60.66
2012 59.24
2013 57.64
2014 56.05
2015 54.58
2016 52.07
2017 49.74
2018 47.63
2019 45.74
2020 44.08

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