Indicators

Time Series Indicators: 2024 Revision

NEW: Update based on 2022 World Population Prospects

Time series indicators provide measures of age structure that incorporate country- and age-specific variation in consumption and labor income. The indicators are used to measure the effects of changes in population age on the economy given economic age patterns as quantified by NTA profiles. Indicators have been constructed using consumption and labor income profiles for more than 180 countries using the medium scenario from World Population Prospects 2022 and methods described in Mason, Andrew, Ronald Lee, Michael Abrigo, and Sang-Hyop Lee (2017). Support Ratios and Demographic Dividends: Estimates for the World. Technical Paper No. 2017/1. New York: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division.

Thanks to the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization (UHERO) for constructing the data portal for NTA Time Series Indictors.

Click here for portal and visualizations: Time Series Indicators

Click here for excel data base: Indicators data base 2024

Click here for variable definitions: Var definitions 2024

Click here for methods: UN Technical Papers

Cross-sectional Indicators

NTA Data Sheet 2016 provides estimates of 23 variables for 59 countries in Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, South and Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, and Europe.

The data sheet is available for download as a pdf file at NTA Data Sheet 2016. An Excel version of the data sheet is available at NTA Data Sheet 2016 excel.