Low income | 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
Low income
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63
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Low income | Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)
84.63885949 1960
84.79448225 1961
84.97266418 1962
85.30217981 1963
85.75169433 1964
86.20480494 1965
86.74986538 1966
87.43456405 1967
88.11312536 1968
88.74597386 1969
89.35590638 1970
89.99271645 1971
90.6478692 1972
91.14135114 1973
91.45250782 1974
91.73093314 1975
92.05796467 1976
92.37283338 1977
92.54201857 1978
92.67188453 1979
92.8929504 1980
93.1130254 1981
93.14402893 1982
93.06157543 1983
93.02751846 1984
93.08213585 1985
93.19319389 1986
93.36684943 1987
93.58781705 1988
93.85313669 1989
94.14860661 1990
94.36395312 1991
94.53372929 1992
94.85077721 1993
94.79890932 1994
94.59943203 1995
94.88151328 1996
95.20893306 1997
95.21322021 1998
95.01570603 1999
94.77615799 2000
94.45601762 2001
94.12606843 2002
93.77609299 2003
93.35211781 2004
92.8623528 2005
92.29311929 2006
91.83199638 2007
91.42312517 2008
90.93353511 2009
90.43702344 2010
89.85408906 2011
89.36290856 2012
89.07964468 2013
88.7716279 2014
88.34817906 2015
87.73485075 2016
87.00174597 2017
86.21910839 2018
85.35998531 2019
84.47975186 2020
83.61793541 2021
82.74883827 2022
Low income | 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
Low income
Records
63
Source