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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Qatar was 16.11 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 74.24 in 1960 and a minimum value of 14.92 in 2010.

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 74.24
1961 72.98
1962 71.47
1963 69.86
1964 68.14
1965 66.41
1966 64.54
1967 62.60
1968 60.88
1969 59.45
1970 58.26
1971 57.38
1972 55.95
1973 54.23
1974 52.53
1975 51.10
1976 51.08
1977 51.07
1978 51.18
1979 51.46
1980 51.93
1981 48.45
1982 45.97
1983 44.19
1984 42.73
1985 41.35
1986 41.92
1987 41.80
1988 41.31
1989 40.75
1990 40.18
1991 39.48
1992 39.07
1993 38.85
1994 38.62
1995 38.27
1996 37.79
1997 37.10
1998 36.38
1999 35.82
2000 35.47
2001 33.19
2002 31.38
2003 30.01
2004 28.98
2005 28.19
2006 22.77
2007 19.23
2008 17.05
2009 15.75
2010 14.92
2011 15.19
2012 15.21
2013 15.31
2014 15.52
2015 15.70
2016 15.81
2017 15.85
2018 15.91
2019 16.02
2020 16.11

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