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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Comoros was 67.42 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 90.31 in 1991 and a minimum value of 67.42 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 74.45
1961 76.23
1962 78.05
1963 79.81
1964 81.29
1965 82.38
1966 83.65
1967 84.47
1968 84.94
1969 85.14
1970 85.16
1971 85.56
1972 85.67
1973 85.57
1974 85.43
1975 85.40
1976 85.68
1977 85.86
1978 86.00
1979 86.12
1980 86.15
1981 86.77
1982 87.36
1983 87.89
1984 88.31
1985 88.62
1986 89.39
1987 89.87
1988 90.14
1989 90.26
1990 90.25
1991 90.31
1992 90.15
1993 89.79
1994 89.19
1995 88.38
1996 87.57
1997 86.61
1998 85.52
1999 84.30
2000 82.99
2001 81.93
2002 80.75
2003 79.54
2004 78.35
2005 77.23
2006 76.39
2007 75.57
2008 74.79
2009 74.03
2010 73.29
2011 72.76
2012 72.21
2013 71.65
2014 71.08
2015 70.47
2016 70.01
2017 69.45
2018 68.82
2019 68.14
2020 67.42

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