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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Pakistan was 57.24 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 81.92 in 1993 and a minimum value of 57.24 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 69.62
1961 70.42
1962 70.96
1963 71.42
1964 72.02
1965 72.82
1966 74.03
1967 75.35
1968 76.66
1969 77.79
1970 78.63
1971 79.56
1972 80.17
1973 80.52
1974 80.73
1975 80.87
1976 80.98
1977 80.96
1978 80.85
1979 80.66
1980 80.42
1981 80.38
1982 80.20
1983 79.95
1984 79.71
1985 79.51
1986 79.91
1987 80.31
1988 80.67
1989 80.91
1990 80.99
1991 81.54
1992 81.84
1993 81.92
1994 81.85
1995 81.64
1996 81.21
1997 80.60
1998 79.81
1999 78.83
2000 77.65
2001 76.67
2002 75.52
2003 74.24
2004 72.88
2005 71.48
2006 70.18
2007 68.85
2008 67.52
2009 66.20
2010 64.92
2011 63.88
2012 62.87
2013 61.90
2014 60.98
2015 60.14
2016 59.51
2017 58.93
2018 58.38
2019 57.82
2020 57.24

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