Angola - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Angola was 90.24 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 95.89 in 1993 and a minimum value of 76.80 in 1960.

Definition: 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.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on age distributions of United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision.

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Year Value
1960 76.80
1961 79.00
1962 81.39
1963 83.44
1964 84.59
1965 84.74
1966 84.96
1967 84.47
1968 84.21
1969 85.00
1970 87.00
1971 87.38
1972 88.49
1973 89.77
1974 90.45
1975 90.27
1976 91.41
1977 91.17
1978 90.28
1979 89.71
1980 89.83
1981 90.45
1982 91.69
1983 93.17
1984 94.26
1985 94.69
1986 95.59
1987 95.87
1988 95.72
1989 95.45
1990 95.18
1991 95.62
1992 95.84
1993 95.89
1994 95.74
1995 95.40
1996 95.50
1997 95.36
1998 95.03
1999 94.55
2000 93.96
2001 93.91
2002 93.70
2003 93.37
2004 93.01
2005 92.68
2006 92.87
2007 92.98
2008 93.03
2009 93.03
2010 92.97
2011 93.34
2012 93.52
2013 93.53
2014 93.38
2015 93.07
2016 92.83
2017 92.41
2018 91.83
2019 91.10
2020 90.24

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.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population