Ecuador | 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
Republic of Ecuador
Records
63
Source
Ecuador | Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)
1960 94.86161838
1961 95.464482
1962 95.98199687
1963 96.16708555
1964 96.0000847
1965 95.71146173
1966 95.39528208
1967 95.0494169
1968 94.67080491
1969 94.2438174
1970 93.74634306
1971 93.15232433
1972 92.46858584
1973 91.72072008
1974 90.92011582
1975 90.0619445
1976 89.12948407
1977 88.12876331
1978 87.08335567
1979 85.9881329
1980 84.84574538
1981 83.6916367
1982 82.52704124
1983 81.35188691
1984 80.19388214
1985 79.0844552
1986 78.04440184
1987 77.05857903
1988 76.12879405
1989 75.26337093
1990 74.44672815
1991 73.68026113
1992 72.98945474
1993 72.35824002
1994 71.73461197
1995 71.08735342
1996 70.41163877
1997 69.71365884
1998 68.99577818
1999 68.24563772
2000 67.44216177
2001 66.57356042
2002 65.65487978
2003 64.71471905
2004 63.78049391
2005 62.86530082
2006 61.97041605
2007 61.11421742
2008 60.31014814
2009 59.55262219
2010 58.83793324
2011 58.16553161
2012 57.51050748
2013 56.84804344
2014 56.17001458
2015 55.46510806
2016 54.73369038
2017 53.99096378
2018 53.12248649
2019 52.29278094
2020 51.59353138
2021 50.91996994
2022 50.42462929
Ecuador | 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
Republic of Ecuador
Records
63
Source