Hong Kong SAR, China - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Hong Kong SAR, China was 18.33 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 72.71 in 1961 and a minimum value of 14.87 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 71.74
1961 72.71
1962 72.61
1963 71.83
1964 70.79
1965 69.58
1966 69.20
1967 67.97
1968 66.11
1969 63.94
1970 61.66
1971 59.01
1972 56.74
1973 54.57
1974 52.16
1975 49.43
1976 47.03
1977 44.17
1978 41.27
1979 38.80
1980 36.89
1981 35.76
1982 35.03
1983 34.61
1984 34.26
1985 33.85
1986 32.92
1987 31.97
1988 31.05
1989 30.20
1990 29.42
1991 28.65
1992 28.01
1993 27.41
1994 26.78
1995 26.09
1996 25.68
1997 25.06
1998 24.42
1999 23.87
2000 23.38
2001 22.50
2002 21.72
2003 20.99
2004 20.27
2005 19.55
2006 18.60
2007 17.78
2008 17.05
2009 16.41
2010 15.88
2011 15.50
2012 15.13
2013 14.88
2014 14.87
2015 15.16
2016 15.33
2017 15.89
2018 16.71
2019 17.57
2020 18.33

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