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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Cuba was 23.35 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 67.55 in 1974 and a minimum value of 23.35 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 58.16
1961 58.10
1962 59.34
1963 61.23
1964 62.77
1965 63.49
1966 65.09
1967 65.19
1968 64.55
1969 64.26
1970 64.77
1971 64.71
1972 65.72
1973 67.06
1974 67.55
1975 66.64
1976 65.30
1977 62.51
1978 58.87
1979 55.36
1980 52.44
1981 49.19
1982 46.83
1983 45.01
1984 43.21
1985 41.23
1986 39.83
1987 38.20
1988 36.58
1989 35.26
1990 34.33
1991 33.82
1992 33.38
1993 33.05
1994 32.85
1995 32.77
1996 32.26
1997 32.14
1998 32.14
1999 31.97
2000 31.48
2001 31.02
2002 30.18
2003 29.12
2004 28.17
2005 27.46
2006 26.81
2007 26.37
2008 26.07
2009 25.78
2010 25.45
2011 25.11
2012 24.82
2013 24.56
2014 24.31
2015 24.07
2016 24.01
2017 23.84
2018 23.63
2019 23.46
2020 23.35

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