Other small states - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Other small states was 45.78 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 69.70 in 1967 and a minimum value of 45.78 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 67.77
1961 68.44
1962 68.95
1963 69.28
1964 69.42
1965 69.37
1966 69.66
1967 69.70
1968 69.57
1969 69.39
1970 69.20
1971 69.09
1972 68.99
1973 68.89
1974 68.74
1975 68.50
1976 68.71
1977 68.73
1978 68.69
1979 68.68
1980 68.73
1981 68.73
1982 68.74
1983 68.76
1984 68.74
1985 68.63
1986 68.73
1987 68.62
1988 68.38
1989 68.08
1990 67.72
1991 67.52
1992 67.31
1993 67.03
1994 66.57
1995 65.93
1996 65.52
1997 64.84
1998 63.99
1999 63.05
2000 62.09
2001 60.94
2002 59.85
2003 58.77
2004 57.65
2005 56.45
2006 54.88
2007 53.27
2008 51.75
2009 50.42
2010 49.32
2011 48.76
2012 48.25
2013 47.85
2014 47.53
2015 47.24
2016 46.96
2017 46.66
2018 46.37
2019 46.08
2020 45.78

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