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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Sri Lanka was 36.39 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 78.92 in 1961 and a minimum value of 36.39 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 78.64
1961 78.92
1962 78.41
1963 77.46
1964 76.51
1965 75.77
1966 74.93
1967 74.38
1968 73.89
1969 73.10
1970 71.88
1971 70.88
1972 69.40
1973 67.68
1974 66.05
1975 64.68
1976 63.44
1977 62.53
1978 61.80
1979 61.02
1980 60.08
1981 59.52
1982 58.74
1983 57.84
1984 56.97
1985 56.17
1986 55.30
1987 54.39
1988 53.45
1989 52.46
1990 51.43
1991 50.24
1992 49.17
1993 48.13
1994 47.02
1995 45.78
1996 44.68
1997 43.43
1998 42.12
1999 40.91
2000 39.91
2001 39.18
2002 38.67
2003 38.35
2004 38.10
2005 37.86
2006 37.91
2007 37.88
2008 37.82
2009 37.77
2010 37.77
2011 37.71
2012 37.72
2013 37.75
2014 37.73
2015 37.63
2016 37.47
2017 37.28
2018 37.04
2019 36.74
2020 36.39

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