West Bank and Gaza - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in West Bank and Gaza was 65.66 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 98.62 in 1996 and a minimum value of 65.66 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.

See also:

Year Value
1990 98.31
1991 98.44
1992 98.53
1993 98.59
1994 98.59
1995 98.49
1996 98.62
1997 98.34
1998 97.76
1999 96.94
2000 95.77
2001 94.39
2002 92.98
2003 91.40
2004 89.58
2005 87.61
2006 85.37
2007 83.14
2008 80.98
2009 78.91
2010 76.96
2011 75.40
2012 73.86
2013 72.41
2014 71.08
2015 69.91
2016 69.02
2017 68.11
2018 67.24
2019 66.43
2020 65.66

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