Burkina Faso | Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)
Age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents--people younger than 15 or older than 64--to the working-age population--those ages 15-64. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age population. 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.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Burkina Faso
Records
63
Source
Burkina Faso | Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)
74.10082521 1960
74.25882689 1961
74.60829674 1962
75.45919349 1963
76.72235249 1964
77.97806816 1965
79.17840616 1966
80.34471991 1967
81.46689072 1968
82.54264847 1969
83.5509942 1970
84.55098939 1971
85.53949401 1972
86.48787713 1973
87.39421956 1974
88.28260223 1975
89.16519508 1976
89.99646157 1977
90.86066324 1978
91.78924476 1979
92.68713779 1980
93.57041445 1981
94.44454182 1982
95.23069114 1983
96.00437045 1984
96.8825959 1985
97.87494512 1986
98.90304962 1987
99.82779749 1988
100.58555001 1989
101.17534544 1990
101.74125297 1991
102.18170022 1992
102.29128078 1993
102.11721981 1994
101.7796816 1995
101.43042945 1996
101.00706868 1997
100.24572467 1998
99.19957844 1999
98.06716445 2000
96.88431401 2001
95.72001726 2002
94.69961438 2003
93.85890434 2004
93.20625038 2005
92.82909121 2006
92.76805394 2007
92.96573906 2008
93.25225805 2009
93.52384676 2010
93.71071567 2011
93.73275917 2012
93.62027393 2013
93.34261429 2014
92.89558988 2015
92.28094977 2016
91.51407753 2017
90.67659835 2018
89.76688485 2019
88.67545391 2020
87.39985229 2021
86.06869662 2022
Burkina Faso | Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)
Age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents--people younger than 15 or older than 64--to the working-age population--those ages 15-64. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age population. 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.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Burkina Faso
Records
63
Source