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)
1960 74.10082521
1961 74.25882689
1962 74.60829674
1963 75.45919349
1964 76.72235249
1965 77.97806816
1966 79.17840616
1967 80.34471991
1968 81.46689072
1969 82.54264847
1970 83.5509942
1971 84.55098939
1972 85.53949401
1973 86.48787713
1974 87.39421956
1975 88.28260223
1976 89.16519508
1977 89.99646157
1978 90.86066324
1979 91.78924476
1980 92.68713779
1981 93.57041445
1982 94.44454182
1983 95.23069114
1984 96.00437045
1985 96.8825959
1986 97.87494512
1987 98.90304962
1988 99.82779749
1989 100.58555001
1990 101.17534544
1991 101.74125297
1992 102.18170022
1993 102.29128078
1994 102.11721981
1995 101.7796816
1996 101.43042945
1997 101.00706868
1998 100.24572467
1999 99.19957844
2000 98.06716445
2001 96.88431401
2002 95.72001726
2003 94.69961438
2004 93.85890434
2005 93.20625038
2006 92.82909121
2007 92.76805394
2008 92.96573906
2009 93.25225805
2010 93.52384676
2011 93.71071567
2012 93.73275917
2013 93.62027393
2014 93.34261429
2015 92.89558988
2016 92.28094977
2017 91.51407753
2018 90.67659835
2019 89.76688485
2020 88.67545391
2021 87.39985229
2022 86.06869662

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