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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Equatorial Guinea was 60.45 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 81.45 in 1993 and a minimum value of 60.45 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 66.15
1961 67.02
1962 68.03
1963 69.00
1964 69.62
1965 69.83
1966 70.46
1967 70.74
1968 70.67
1969 70.15
1970 68.97
1971 69.56
1972 69.44
1973 68.80
1974 68.11
1975 67.82
1976 67.29
1977 67.19
1978 67.49
1979 68.13
1980 69.37
1981 70.62
1982 71.65
1983 72.68
1984 73.68
1985 74.41
1986 76.63
1987 78.24
1988 79.41
1989 80.39
1990 81.32
1991 81.26
1992 81.39
1993 81.45
1994 81.11
1995 80.27
1996 78.96
1997 77.28
1998 75.58
1999 74.12
2000 72.96
2001 72.00
2002 71.03
2003 70.25
2004 69.68
2005 69.24
2006 68.42
2007 67.59
2008 66.90
2009 66.30
2010 65.69
2011 65.20
2012 64.50
2013 63.82
2014 63.21
2015 62.61
2016 62.37
2017 61.90
2018 61.43
2019 60.97
2020 60.45

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