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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in New Zealand was 30.27 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 56.72 in 1961 and a minimum value of 30.27 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 56.24
1961 56.72
1962 56.58
1963 56.05
1964 55.46
1965 54.94
1966 54.60
1967 54.33
1968 54.03
1969 53.61
1970 53.05
1971 52.34
1972 51.66
1973 50.91
1974 49.99
1975 48.82
1976 48.11
1977 47.03
1978 45.69
1979 44.34
1980 43.15
1981 41.73
1982 40.64
1983 39.73
1984 38.82
1985 37.88
1986 37.27
1987 36.67
1988 36.08
1989 35.64
1990 35.39
1991 35.28
1992 35.24
1993 35.23
1994 35.22
1995 35.16
1996 35.23
1997 35.24
1998 35.15
1999 34.95
2000 34.70
2001 34.23
2002 33.81
2003 33.38
2004 32.93
2005 32.45
2006 32.07
2007 31.72
2008 31.40
2009 31.11
2010 30.85
2011 30.96
2012 30.92
2013 30.78
2014 30.65
2015 30.54
2016 30.39
2017 30.35
2018 30.38
2019 30.36
2020 30.27

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

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population