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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in United Kingdom was 27.76 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 38.65 in 1972 and a minimum value of 26.53 in 2010.

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 35.58
1961 35.92
1962 35.98
1963 35.90
1964 35.92
1965 36.13
1966 36.68
1967 37.21
1968 37.73
1969 38.17
1970 38.48
1971 38.61
1972 38.65
1973 38.53
1974 38.20
1975 37.63
1976 36.90
1977 36.02
1978 35.00
1979 33.91
1980 32.83
1981 31.91
1982 31.05
1983 30.30
1984 29.66
1985 29.15
1986 29.00
1987 28.88
1988 28.84
1989 28.90
1990 29.05
1991 29.20
1992 29.44
1993 29.73
1994 29.97
1995 30.11
1996 30.09
1997 29.98
1998 29.78
1999 29.53
2000 29.25
2001 28.89
2002 28.47
2003 28.03
2004 27.61
2005 27.24
2006 26.99
2007 26.80
2008 26.68
2009 26.60
2010 26.53
2011 26.74
2012 26.86
2013 26.96
2014 27.08
2015 27.23
2016 27.38
2017 27.52
2018 27.65
2019 27.74
2020 27.76

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