Ethiopia | 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
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Records
63
Source
Ethiopia | Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)
83.82721702 1960
83.46510868 1961
83.14506436 1962
83.06588027 1963
83.29949501 1964
83.71355151 1965
84.14053099 1966
84.70635722 1967
85.51016578 1968
86.42984564 1969
87.46198875 1970
88.66571347 1971
89.90215804 1972
90.89730137 1973
91.50102426 1974
91.92299416 1975
92.51846883 1976
93.13844445 1977
93.62781503 1978
94.07065595 1979
94.49910266 1980
94.89142723 1981
95.09814099 1982
94.70501711 1983
93.82448529 1984
93.30099172 1985
93.22499173 1986
93.67059614 1987
94.61060052 1988
95.5369481 1989
96.39476 1990
97.3291699 1991
98.10053883 1992
98.62119669 1993
99.07686242 1994
99.29482897 1995
99.4577693 1996
99.87417423 1997
100.39519149 1998
100.73332079 1999
100.81366966 2000
100.60841213 2001
100.07826825 2002
99.34631514 2003
98.56302974 2004
97.74426126 2005
96.76159715 2006
95.6721721 2007
94.53087739 2008
93.23563345 2009
91.77076122 2010
90.17284413 2011
88.48340506 2012
86.76790078 2013
85.05217314 2014
83.41933973 2015
81.86909164 2016
80.37209969 2017
79.04556037 2018
77.90293933 2019
76.81367339 2020
75.74514182 2021
74.72151776 2022
Ethiopia | 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
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Records
63
Source