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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Chad was 91.14 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 102.44 in 2003 and a minimum value of 74.22 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 74.22
1961 75.33
1962 76.54
1963 77.68
1964 78.44
1965 78.70
1966 79.52
1967 79.81
1968 79.73
1969 79.58
1970 79.54
1971 80.24
1972 80.97
1973 81.70
1974 82.34
1975 82.81
1976 84.15
1977 85.21
1978 86.07
1979 86.87
1980 87.68
1981 89.02
1982 90.19
1983 91.22
1984 92.08
1985 92.83
1986 93.97
1987 94.83
1988 95.48
1989 95.98
1990 96.34
1991 97.28
1992 97.99
1993 98.49
1994 98.85
1995 99.11
1996 99.96
1997 100.53
1998 100.89
1999 101.11
2000 101.25
2001 101.88
2002 102.27
2003 102.44
2004 102.37
2005 102.05
2006 102.20
2007 102.04
2008 101.61
2009 100.97
2010 100.18
2011 99.75
2012 99.09
2013 98.26
2014 97.29
2015 96.21
2016 95.45
2017 94.55
2018 93.52
2019 92.37
2020 91.14

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