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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Timor-Leste was 62.55 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 87.47 in 2003 and a minimum value of 62.55 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 73.10
1961 73.02
1962 72.07
1963 70.73
1964 69.67
1965 69.15
1966 69.50
1967 70.07
1968 70.75
1969 71.30
1970 71.60
1971 72.22
1972 72.69
1973 72.91
1974 72.60
1975 71.55
1976 72.50
1977 72.34
1978 71.36
1979 70.30
1980 69.69
1981 67.59
1982 66.56
1983 66.18
1984 65.67
1985 64.74
1986 65.23
1987 64.77
1988 64.00
1989 63.84
1990 64.63
1991 65.85
1992 67.99
1993 70.59
1994 72.86
1995 74.36
1996 77.84
1997 80.50
1998 82.56
1999 84.55
2000 86.76
2001 86.74
2002 87.09
2003 87.47
2004 87.35
2005 86.51
2006 86.06
2007 84.76
2008 82.98
2009 81.20
2010 79.62
2011 77.42
2012 75.56
2013 73.88
2014 72.16
2015 70.35
2016 68.50
2017 66.80
2018 65.25
2019 63.83
2020 62.55

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