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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in North Macedonia was 23.57 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 66.29 in 1960 and a minimum value of 23.57 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 66.29
1961 65.72
1962 65.42
1963 65.10
1964 64.42
1965 63.28
1966 62.06
1967 60.52
1968 58.78
1969 57.07
1970 55.48
1971 54.28
1972 53.02
1973 51.87
1974 50.95
1975 50.28
1976 49.31
1977 48.67
1978 48.18
1979 47.57
1980 46.72
1981 45.78
1982 44.70
1983 43.56
1984 42.50
1985 41.58
1986 41.04
1987 40.54
1988 40.08
1989 39.68
1990 39.32
1991 39.05
1992 38.85
1993 38.64
1994 38.35
1995 37.94
1996 37.28
1997 36.44
1998 35.49
1999 34.54
2000 33.63
2001 32.67
2002 31.84
2003 31.07
2004 30.26
2005 29.37
2006 28.62
2007 27.74
2008 26.83
2009 26.03
2010 25.40
2011 24.78
2012 24.38
2013 24.16
2014 24.00
2015 23.84
2016 23.85
2017 23.77
2018 23.66
2019 23.58
2020 23.57

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