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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Slovenia was 23.60 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 42.85 in 1960 and a minimum value of 19.58 in 2006.

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 42.85
1961 42.37
1962 41.87
1963 41.31
1964 40.65
1965 39.91
1966 39.42
1967 38.65
1968 37.77
1969 37.03
1970 36.54
1971 36.17
1972 36.11
1973 36.24
1974 36.35
1975 36.35
1976 36.42
1977 36.36
1978 36.22
1979 36.05
1980 35.85
1981 35.56
1982 35.09
1983 34.48
1984 33.84
1985 33.21
1986 32.61
1987 32.11
1988 31.62
1989 31.00
1990 30.20
1991 29.60
1992 28.83
1993 27.93
1994 27.03
1995 26.21
1996 25.30
1997 24.53
1998 23.84
1999 23.18
2000 22.50
2001 21.90
2002 21.25
2003 20.63
2004 20.12
2005 19.81
2006 19.58
2007 19.59
2008 19.76
2009 19.98
2010 20.18
2011 20.59
2012 20.89
2013 21.14
2014 21.43
2015 21.79
2016 22.14
2017 22.55
2018 22.98
2019 23.34
2020 23.60

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