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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Puerto Rico was 24.84 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 81.57 in 1960 and a minimum value of 24.84 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 81.57
1961 78.08
1962 75.10
1963 72.75
1964 70.86
1965 69.11
1966 68.87
1967 67.92
1968 66.60
1969 65.29
1970 64.17
1971 62.23
1972 60.37
1973 58.74
1974 57.34
1975 56.09
1976 55.31
1977 54.69
1978 54.01
1979 53.18
1980 52.25
1981 51.60
1982 50.92
1983 50.08
1984 49.10
1985 47.99
1986 46.96
1987 45.94
1988 44.91
1989 43.92
1990 43.02
1991 42.17
1992 41.41
1993 40.72
1994 40.03
1995 39.30
1996 38.84
1997 38.25
1998 37.55
1999 36.84
2000 36.19
2001 35.71
2002 35.30
2003 34.91
2004 34.47
2005 33.98
2006 33.51
2007 33.04
2008 32.50
2009 31.86
2010 31.13
2011 30.65
2012 30.17
2013 29.66
2014 29.11
2015 28.44
2016 27.65
2017 26.88
2018 26.11
2019 25.39
2020 24.84

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