Congo - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Congo was 78.68 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 97.13 in 1981 and 78.68 in 2020.

Definition: Age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents--people younger than 15 or older than 64--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 82.63
1961 83.75
1962 84.80
1963 85.77
1964 86.61
1965 87.31
1966 88.48
1967 89.42
1968 90.19
1969 90.84
1970 91.43
1971 92.44
1972 93.27
1973 93.95
1974 94.49
1975 94.89
1976 95.74
1977 96.39
1978 96.84
1979 97.06
1980 97.02
1981 97.13
1982 96.87
1983 96.35
1984 95.66
1985 94.87
1986 94.23
1987 93.52
1988 92.71
1989 91.75
1990 90.64
1991 89.66
1992 88.53
1993 87.34
1994 86.19
1995 85.13
1996 84.29
1997 83.51
1998 82.78
1999 82.09
2000 81.42
2001 81.17
2002 80.85
2003 80.53
2004 80.26
2005 80.09
2006 79.85
2007 79.67
2008 79.53
2009 79.35
2010 79.08
2011 79.80
2012 80.32
2013 80.66
2014 80.85
2015 80.91
2016 80.77
2017 80.46
2018 80.00
2019 79.40
2020 78.68

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

General Comments: Relevance to gender indicator: this indicator implies the dependency burden that the working-age population bears in relation to children and the elderly. Many times single or widowed women who are the sole caregiver of a household have a high dependency

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population