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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Thailand was 23.48 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 84.07 in 1969 and a minimum value of 23.48 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 79.21
1961 80.22
1962 81.00
1963 81.59
1964 82.08
1965 82.53
1966 83.17
1967 83.69
1968 84.02
1969 84.07
1970 83.78
1971 83.52
1972 82.73
1973 81.55
1974 80.15
1975 78.62
1976 76.99
1977 75.32
1978 73.57
1979 71.60
1980 69.41
1981 66.96
1982 64.43
1983 61.85
1984 59.32
1985 56.90
1986 54.51
1987 52.24
1988 50.11
1989 48.12
1990 46.29
1991 44.91
1992 43.63
1993 42.43
1994 41.28
1995 40.17
1996 38.92
1997 37.72
1998 36.58
1999 35.51
2000 34.51
2001 33.47
2002 32.53
2003 31.65
2004 30.82
2005 30.00
2006 29.24
2007 28.54
2008 27.88
2009 27.25
2010 26.67
2011 26.44
2012 26.14
2013 25.80
2014 25.47
2015 25.17
2016 24.73
2017 24.37
2018 24.06
2019 23.77
2020 23.48

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