St. Lucia - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in St. Lucia was 25.02 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 110.57 in 1970 and a minimum value of 25.02 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 87.43
1961 89.71
1962 91.78
1963 93.63
1964 95.57
1965 97.79
1966 99.27
1967 101.28
1968 104.00
1969 107.28
1970 110.57
1971 107.65
1972 104.86
1973 102.02
1974 99.13
1975 96.36
1976 94.17
1977 92.07
1978 90.00
1979 87.91
1980 85.84
1981 82.75
1982 80.14
1983 78.05
1984 76.54
1985 75.57
1986 72.12
1987 69.54
1988 67.65
1989 66.27
1990 65.28
1991 63.98
1992 63.06
1993 62.36
1994 61.70
1995 61.01
1996 59.99
1997 58.71
1998 57.19
1999 55.47
2000 53.59
2001 51.61
2002 49.43
2003 47.14
2004 44.85
2005 42.67
2006 40.57
2007 38.74
2008 37.06
2009 35.47
2010 34.00
2011 32.51
2012 31.17
2013 29.95
2014 28.84
2015 27.84
2016 27.13
2017 26.45
2018 25.85
2019 25.38
2020 25.02

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