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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Ecuador was 42.13 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 88.37 in 1966 and a minimum value of 42.13 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 83.63
1961 84.51
1962 85.71
1963 86.94
1964 87.76
1965 88.00
1966 88.37
1967 88.18
1968 87.60
1969 86.89
1970 86.16
1971 85.80
1972 85.27
1973 84.62
1974 83.84
1975 82.94
1976 82.20
1977 81.32
1978 80.30
1979 79.17
1980 77.96
1981 76.86
1982 75.71
1983 74.51
1984 73.26
1985 72.00
1986 70.95
1987 69.84
1988 68.72
1989 67.61
1990 66.54
1991 65.62
1992 64.70
1993 63.77
1994 62.86
1995 61.96
1996 61.21
1997 60.49
1998 59.77
1999 59.00
2000 58.14
2001 57.44
2002 56.60
2003 55.69
2004 54.78
2005 53.90
2006 52.91
2007 51.99
2008 51.11
2009 50.22
2010 49.29
2011 48.41
2012 47.53
2013 46.67
2014 45.87
2015 45.17
2016 44.49
2017 43.84
2018 43.24
2019 42.68
2020 42.13

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