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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Tunisia was 36.34 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 92.52 in 1966 and a minimum value of 33.61 in 2011.

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 82.31
1961 82.68
1962 83.86
1963 85.99
1964 88.68
1965 91.29
1966 92.52
1967 92.35
1968 91.31
1969 90.13
1970 89.18
1971 87.63
1972 86.37
1973 85.30
1974 84.18
1975 82.91
1976 81.69
1977 80.46
1978 79.21
1979 77.98
1980 76.80
1981 75.41
1982 73.93
1983 72.42
1984 71.01
1985 69.72
1986 68.60
1987 67.60
1988 66.63
1989 65.54
1990 64.25
1991 62.92
1992 61.30
1993 59.49
1994 57.61
1995 55.73
1996 53.82
1997 52.01
1998 50.21
1999 48.33
2000 46.38
2001 44.60
2002 42.79
2003 41.02
2004 39.40
2005 37.98
2006 36.75
2007 35.70
2008 34.84
2009 34.18
2010 33.73
2011 33.61
2012 33.73
2013 34.02
2014 34.37
2015 34.71
2016 35.20
2017 35.54
2018 35.80
2019 36.06
2020 36.34

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