Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels) | Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

Age dependency ratio, young, is the ratio of younger dependents--people younger than 15--to the working-age population--those ages 15-64. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age population. Limitations and exceptions: Annual data series are interpolated from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Sub-Saharan Africa
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53
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Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels) | Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)
1960 79.46007321
1961 79.89741682
1962 80.36171729
1963 80.83726138
1964 81.30449034
1965 81.75061653
1966 82.17018584
1967 82.56769734
1968 82.95272407
1969 83.3383852
1970 83.73243914
1971 84.13475074
1972 84.53950477
1973 84.93865303
1974 85.32179973
1975 85.6814801
1976 86.01247169
1977 86.31567334
1978 86.59611969
1979 86.86096216
1980 87.11313343
1981 87.34958474
1982 87.56221281
1983 87.74294081
1984 87.88220756
1985 87.97175974
1986 88.01588045
1987 88.01215395
1988 87.93951186
1989 87.77357615
1990 87.50404565
1991 87.12607909
1992 86.65956805
1993 86.14091906
1994 85.6120995
1995 85.10139897
1996 84.61200275
1997 84.13539453
1998 83.66818314
1999 83.2037618
2000 82.73797685
2001 82.28223662
2002 81.84390537
2003 81.40657421
2004 80.96636089
2005 80.51893262
2006 80.06205645
2007 79.59534968
2008 79.11657881
2009 78.62598824
2010 78.11264092
2011 77.59462522
2012

Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels) | Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

Age dependency ratio, young, is the ratio of younger dependents--people younger than 15--to the working-age population--those ages 15-64. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age population. Limitations and exceptions: Annual data series are interpolated from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Sub-Saharan Africa
Records
53
Source