Comoros | 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
Union of the Comoros
Records
63
Source
Comoros | Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)
1960 81.22471377
1961 82.5909889
1962 84.17238055
1963 86.02049823
1964 87.9812969
1965 89.56563919
1966 90.76394626
1967 91.81260047
1968 92.63940894
1969 93.23677035
1970 93.64687458
1971 93.95022505
1972 94.21200658
1973 94.46886015
1974 94.76109924
1975 95.10014979
1976 95.52104419
1977 96.04881609
1978 96.6787806
1979 97.39085652
1980 98.09344531
1981 98.86325526
1982 99.88538583
1983 100.97684576
1984 101.88210482
1985 102.559692
1986 102.98108823
1987 103.15569638
1988 103.10831056
1989 102.86859486
1990 102.56495795
1991 102.36231281
1992 102.27282876
1993 102.19777342
1994 101.94059642
1995 101.40470372
1996 100.63809578
1997 99.67540041
1998 98.54542096
1999 98.23732311
2000 98.91861043
2001 99.72069585
2002 100.46184905
2003 99.86748652
2004 97.84033307
2005 95.73058569
2006 93.77425547
2007 91.86179957
2008 89.93750924
2009 87.99592695
2010 86.08287193
2011 84.26312186
2012 82.56915478
2013 81.02997093
2014 79.67470067
2015 78.49720478
2016 77.45542402
2017 76.58761531
2018 75.9792265
2019 75.46445724
2020 74.83934772
2021 74.11625339
2022 73.35065236
Comoros | 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
Union of the Comoros
Records
63
Source