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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Jordan was 51.99 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 102.39 in 1980 and a minimum value of 51.99 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 83.41
1961 84.46
1962 85.26
1963 85.96
1964 86.82
1965 88.07
1966 89.63
1967 90.54
1968 91.02
1969 91.11
1970 90.69
1971 92.26
1972 93.66
1973 94.75
1974 95.34
1975 95.39
1976 98.73
1977 100.74
1978 101.71
1979 102.14
1980 102.39
1981 100.81
1982 99.63
1983 98.54
1984 97.16
1985 95.51
1986 94.67
1987 93.32
1988 91.85
1989 90.62
1990 89.68
1991 85.39
1992 81.89
1993 78.78
1994 75.69
1995 72.50
1996 72.19
1997 71.54
1998 70.68
1999 69.84
2000 69.10
2001 68.26
2002 67.47
2003 66.72
2004 66.02
2005 65.48
2006 65.13
2007 64.73
2008 64.34
2009 63.98
2010 63.64
2011 63.21
2012 62.63
2013 61.90
2014 60.96
2015 59.69
2016 58.37
2017 56.91
2018 55.32
2019 53.66
2020 51.99

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