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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Botswana was 53.80 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 100.81 in 1980 and a minimum value of 53.80 in 2020.

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 83.82
1961 85.75
1962 88.31
1963 91.09
1964 93.40
1965 94.90
1966 96.55
1967 97.54
1968 98.06
1969 98.44
1970 98.86
1971 99.16
1972 99.23
1973 99.16
1974 99.06
1975 98.98
1976 99.12
1977 99.43
1978 99.89
1979 100.40
1980 100.81
1981 100.62
1982 100.23
1983 99.62
1984 98.77
1985 97.67
1986 96.14
1987 94.17
1988 91.85
1989 89.39
1990 86.89
1991 85.05
1992 83.29
1993 81.50
1994 79.49
1995 77.22
1996 75.33
1997 73.13
1998 70.79
1999 68.56
2000 66.54
2001 64.98
2002 63.71
2003 62.62
2004 61.58
2005 60.53
2006 59.73
2007 58.86
2008 57.99
2009 57.25
2010 56.66
2011 56.54
2012 56.61
2013 56.78
2014 56.94
2015 57.01
2016 56.60
2017 56.02
2018 55.32
2019 54.57
2020 53.80

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