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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Paraguay was 44.94 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 98.25 in 1960 and a minimum value of 44.94 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 98.25
1961 97.78
1962 97.63
1963 97.63
1964 97.54
1965 97.20
1966 96.23
1967 95.11
1968 93.93
1969 92.78
1970 91.65
1971 90.11
1972 88.48
1973 86.89
1974 85.51
1975 84.38
1976 82.68
1977 81.50
1978 80.65
1979 79.89
1980 79.12
1981 78.52
1982 77.79
1983 77.06
1984 76.53
1985 76.24
1986 76.19
1987 76.20
1988 76.23
1989 76.17
1990 75.98
1991 75.74
1992 75.38
1993 74.86
1994 74.17
1995 73.30
1996 72.35
1997 71.29
1998 70.11
1999 68.78
2000 67.30
2001 65.91
2002 64.30
2003 62.60
2004 60.93
2005 59.39
2006 57.90
2007 56.67
2008 55.57
2009 54.46
2010 53.26
2011 52.19
2012 50.98
2013 49.75
2014 48.66
2015 47.79
2016 46.97
2017 46.37
2018 45.91
2019 45.45
2020 44.94

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