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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Malta was 22.35 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 71.66 in 1960 and a minimum value of 21.17 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 71.66
1961 69.43
1962 66.21
1963 62.35
1964 58.51
1965 55.03
1966 52.58
1967 50.08
1968 47.67
1969 45.55
1970 43.83
1971 41.98
1972 40.95
1973 40.41
1974 39.87
1975 39.13
1976 38.66
1977 37.78
1978 36.79
1979 36.09
1980 35.83
1981 35.82
1982 36.06
1983 36.40
1984 36.65
1985 36.72
1986 36.67
1987 36.51
1988 36.23
1989 35.87
1990 35.45
1991 35.08
1992 34.62
1993 34.12
1994 33.60
1995 33.08
1996 32.30
1997 31.57
1998 30.87
1999 30.13
2000 29.31
2001 28.64
2002 27.87
2003 27.02
2004 26.15
2005 25.31
2006 24.37
2007 23.50
2008 22.76
2009 22.13
2010 21.63
2011 21.44
2012 21.27
2013 21.17
2014 21.17
2015 21.24
2016 21.39
2017 21.60
2018 21.84
2019 22.09
2020 22.35

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