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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Spain was 21.94 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 45.16 in 1970 and a minimum value of 20.62 in 2005.

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 42.48
1961 42.85
1962 43.01
1963 43.10
1964 43.27
1965 43.57
1966 43.84
1967 44.22
1968 44.62
1969 44.95
1970 45.16
1971 45.06
1972 44.93
1973 44.73
1974 44.44
1975 44.05
1976 43.77
1977 43.32
1978 42.73
1979 42.02
1980 41.21
1981 40.40
1982 39.43
1983 38.36
1984 37.26
1985 36.15
1986 34.84
1987 33.65
1988 32.50
1989 31.29
1990 30.01
1991 28.86
1992 27.66
1993 26.47
1994 25.38
1995 24.44
1996 23.68
1997 22.98
1998 22.37
1999 21.87
2000 21.48
2001 21.10
2002 20.85
2003 20.72
2004 20.65
2005 20.62
2006 20.89
2007 21.16
2008 21.41
2009 21.61
2010 21.71
2011 22.07
2012 22.22
2013 22.27
2014 22.32
2015 22.43
2016 22.26
2017 22.23
2018 22.24
2019 22.16
2020 21.94

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