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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Vietnam was 33.64 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 87.05 in 1968 and a minimum value of 32.69 in 2014.

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 72.78
1961 75.69
1962 78.59
1963 81.31
1964 83.55
1965 85.15
1966 86.34
1967 86.96
1968 87.05
1969 86.73
1970 86.11
1971 85.52
1972 84.68
1973 83.66
1974 82.48
1975 81.16
1976 80.32
1977 79.27
1978 78.10
1979 76.95
1980 75.89
1981 74.59
1982 73.46
1983 72.43
1984 71.39
1985 70.30
1986 69.39
1987 68.37
1988 67.32
1989 66.31
1990 65.37
1991 64.55
1992 63.76
1993 62.91
1994 61.85
1995 60.48
1996 59.09
1997 57.24
1998 55.10
1999 52.95
2000 50.92
2001 48.44
2002 46.41
2003 44.61
2004 42.78
2005 40.85
2006 39.33
2007 37.69
2008 36.10
2009 34.77
2010 33.81
2011 33.23
2012 32.86
2013 32.71
2014 32.69
2015 32.75
2016 32.85
2017 33.06
2018 33.32
2019 33.53
2020 33.64

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