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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Peru was 37.08 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 86.97 in 1967 and a minimum value of 37.08 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 82.87
1961 83.92
1962 84.90
1963 85.72
1964 86.23
1965 86.37
1966 86.91
1967 86.97
1968 86.67
1969 86.21
1970 85.69
1971 85.49
1972 85.17
1973 84.73
1974 84.09
1975 83.23
1976 82.62
1977 81.74
1978 80.67
1979 79.53
1980 78.35
1981 77.40
1982 76.43
1983 75.42
1984 74.36
1985 73.25
1986 72.38
1987 71.45
1988 70.49
1989 69.49
1990 68.46
1991 67.54
1992 66.54
1993 65.49
1994 64.40
1995 63.28
1996 62.04
1997 60.77
1998 59.46
1999 58.12
2000 56.74
2001 55.50
2002 54.36
2003 53.29
2004 52.27
2005 51.30
2006 50.36
2007 49.52
2008 48.74
2009 48.00
2010 47.25
2011 46.47
2012 45.56
2013 44.68
2014 43.97
2015 43.48
2016 41.47
2017 40.05
2018 39.01
2019 38.06
2020 37.08

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