Upper middle income - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Upper middle income was 29.21 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 71.66 in 1966 and a minimum value of 29.21 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 68.43
1961 68.87
1962 69.79
1963 70.81
1964 71.37
1965 71.31
1966 71.66
1967 71.29
1968 70.51
1969 69.76
1970 69.21
1971 69.03
1972 68.78
1973 68.45
1974 67.91
1975 67.07
1976 65.98
1977 64.66
1978 63.13
1979 61.47
1980 59.73
1981 57.81
1982 56.01
1983 54.32
1984 52.73
1985 51.30
1986 50.33
1987 49.52
1988 48.83
1989 48.17
1990 47.46
1991 47.21
1992 46.51
1993 45.60
1994 44.77
1995 44.13
1996 42.89
1997 42.16
1998 41.63
1999 40.84
2000 39.64
2001 38.64
2002 37.22
2003 35.60
2004 34.14
2005 33.00
2006 32.08
2007 31.41
2008 30.95
2009 30.57
2010 30.21
2011 29.96
2012 29.74
2013 29.57
2014 29.45
2015 29.37
2016 29.35
2017 29.33
2018 29.31
2019 29.28
2020 29.21

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