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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Nicaragua was 45.51 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 102.31 in 1966 and a minimum value of 45.51 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 94.28
1961 95.94
1962 98.08
1963 100.25
1964 101.73
1965 102.20
1966 102.31
1967 101.68
1968 100.50
1969 99.14
1970 97.84
1971 97.03
1972 96.24
1973 95.49
1974 94.78
1975 94.12
1976 94.07
1977 93.93
1978 93.76
1979 93.63
1980 93.55
1981 93.79
1982 94.08
1983 94.33
1984 94.37
1985 94.09
1986 93.76
1987 93.06
1988 92.10
1989 91.03
1990 89.94
1991 88.28
1992 86.71
1993 85.11
1994 83.33
1995 81.30
1996 79.22
1997 76.92
1998 74.54
1999 72.25
2000 70.12
2001 67.90
2002 65.91
2003 64.11
2004 62.40
2005 60.76
2006 59.11
2007 57.55
2008 56.10
2009 54.78
2010 53.61
2011 52.46
2012 51.41
2013 50.47
2014 49.63
2015 48.89
2016 48.13
2017 47.44
2018 46.79
2019 46.15
2020 45.51

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