Tonga | 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
Kingdom of Tonga
Records
63
Source
Tonga | Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)
98.00317143 1960
98.396043 1961
98.86898627 1962
99.38102348 1963
99.69336505 1964
99.89707434 1965
99.95990477 1966
100.41935405 1967
101.24710536 1968
101.73977025 1969
101.79667266 1970
101.45296207 1971
100.70593525 1972
99.61668099 1973
98.4128011 1974
97.26712531 1975
96.1218207 1976
94.51445967 1977
92.62165462 1978
90.98195203 1979
89.51401137 1980
88.16374905 1981
86.83885891 1982
85.5491993 1983
84.43844575 1984
83.61648189 1985
83.1073052 1986
82.41618281 1987
81.54519167 1988
80.98347989 1989
80.76570968 1990
80.78257377 1991
80.93658288 1992
81.12836571 1993
81.25 1994
81.35101308 1995
81.30247539 1996
80.54922782 1997
79.32511104 1998
78.29332681 1999
77.55684768 2000
77.16934169 2001
77.14597768 2002
77.45164689 2003
77.93664239 2004
78.37518364 2005
78.6731054 2006
78.46037988 2007
77.74767287 2008
77.00809516 2009
76.41656673 2010
76.17176629 2011
75.98755832 2012
75.63635767 2013
75.25517332 2014
74.67779369 2015
73.94030145 2016
73.17770367 2017
72.3007849 2018
71.33458493 2019
70.22852614 2020
68.98101659 2021
67.98666897 2022
Tonga | 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
Kingdom of Tonga
Records
63
Source