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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Pacific island small states was 57.23 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 93.57 in 1963 and a minimum value of 57.23 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 93.00
1961 93.34
1962 93.54
1963 93.57
1964 93.35
1965 92.77
1966 92.24
1967 91.34
1968 90.08
1969 88.55
1970 86.85
1971 85.97
1972 85.05
1973 84.05
1974 82.95
1975 81.76
1976 80.95
1977 80.10
1978 79.24
1979 78.44
1980 77.74
1981 77.32
1982 76.92
1983 76.61
1984 76.37
1985 76.11
1986 75.64
1987 75.13
1988 74.55
1989 73.95
1990 73.36
1991 72.73
1992 72.16
1993 71.52
1994 70.71
1995 69.74
1996 69.19
1997 68.44
1998 67.61
1999 66.85
2000 66.17
2001 64.61
2002 63.30
2003 62.13
2004 61.01
2005 59.91
2006 59.34
2007 58.77
2008 58.21
2009 57.68
2010 57.25
2011 57.29
2012 57.34
2013 57.51
2014 57.84
2015 58.29
2016 58.17
2017 58.11
2018 57.98
2019 57.69
2020 57.23

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