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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Burkina Faso was 83.37 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 95.83 in 1992 and a minimum value of 73.33 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 73.33
1961 74.35
1962 75.09
1963 75.62
1964 76.04
1965 76.41
1966 77.50
1967 78.46
1968 79.28
1969 79.89
1970 80.28
1971 81.50
1972 82.34
1973 82.90
1974 83.35
1975 83.79
1976 85.06
1977 86.26
1978 87.35
1979 88.26
1980 88.95
1981 90.39
1982 91.43
1983 92.18
1984 92.79
1985 93.28
1986 94.24
1987 94.94
1988 95.39
1989 95.58
1990 95.53
1991 95.82
1992 95.83
1993 95.60
1994 95.16
1995 94.54
1996 94.54
1997 94.26
1998 93.81
1999 93.27
2000 92.68
2001 92.67
2002 92.48
2003 92.16
2004 91.75
2005 91.28
2006 91.32
2007 91.20
2008 90.95
2009 90.58
2010 90.09
2011 89.92
2012 89.54
2013 88.99
2014 88.34
2015 87.61
2016 86.95
2017 86.21
2018 85.38
2019 84.43
2020 83.37

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