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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in South Asia was 41.62 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 76.08 in 1967 and a minimum value of 41.62 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 72.00
1961 72.89
1962 73.86
1963 74.76
1964 75.36
1965 75.58
1966 76.05
1967 76.08
1968 75.80
1969 75.38
1970 74.92
1971 74.79
1972 74.55
1973 74.21
1974 73.76
1975 73.22
1976 73.07
1977 72.74
1978 72.29
1979 71.79
1980 71.28
1981 71.14
1982 70.94
1983 70.69
1984 70.34
1985 69.89
1986 69.79
1987 69.49
1988 69.03
1989 68.49
1990 67.90
1991 67.45
1992 66.92
1993 66.29
1994 65.55
1995 64.68
1996 63.90
1997 63.02
1998 62.05
1999 61.02
2000 59.96
2001 59.09
2002 58.16
2003 57.18
2004 56.19
2005 55.20
2006 54.35
2007 53.49
2008 52.63
2009 51.71
2010 50.75
2011 49.84
2012 48.84
2013 47.80
2014 46.78
2015 45.82
2016 44.86
2017 44.01
2018 43.22
2019 42.44
2020 41.62

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