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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Oman was 29.98 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 91.62 in 1970 and a minimum value of 28.77 in 2015.

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 81.78
1961 83.15
1962 84.20
1963 85.09
1964 85.93
1965 86.80
1966 88.00
1967 89.11
1968 90.13
1969 90.98
1970 91.62
1971 91.33
1972 90.77
1973 90.15
1974 89.71
1975 89.63
1976 88.32
1977 87.48
1978 86.97
1979 86.61
1980 86.37
1981 86.94
1982 87.26
1983 87.46
1984 87.63
1985 87.70
1986 87.85
1987 87.90
1988 87.79
1989 87.29
1990 86.25
1991 82.73
1992 79.09
1993 75.34
1994 71.55
1995 67.81
1996 66.90
1997 65.56
1998 64.11
1999 62.73
2000 61.37
2001 59.44
2002 57.27
2003 54.89
2004 52.43
2005 50.01
2006 45.75
2007 42.23
2008 39.49
2009 37.42
2010 35.87
2011 33.46
2012 31.53
2013 30.16
2014 29.29
2015 28.77
2016 28.88
2017 29.15
2018 29.52
2019 29.84
2020 29.98

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