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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Cuba was 46.66 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 79.29 in 1974 and 42.79 in 2006.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 65.87
1961 65.93
1962 67.31
1963 69.36
1964 71.10
1965 72.05
1966 73.95
1967 74.37
1968 74.07
1969 74.14
1970 75.01
1971 75.34
1972 76.73
1973 78.45
1974 79.29
1975 78.67
1976 77.60
1977 75.01
1978 71.52
1979 68.14
1980 65.34
1981 62.20
1982 59.95
1983 58.23
1984 56.51
1985 54.61
1986 53.17
1987 51.50
1988 49.84
1989 48.51
1990 47.60
1991 47.15
1992 46.79
1993 46.57
1994 46.48
1995 46.49
1996 46.12
1997 46.11
1998 46.24
1999 46.19
2000 45.85
2001 45.58
2002 44.93
2003 44.10
2004 43.40
2005 43.00
2006 42.79
2007 42.82
2008 43.03
2009 43.25
2010 43.43
2011 43.54
2012 43.67
2013 43.84
2014 44.06
2015 44.34
2016 44.85
2017 45.32
2018 45.77
2019 46.21
2020 46.66

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