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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Eritrea was 72.09 as of 2011. As the graph below shows, over the past 51 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 101.94 in 1995 and a minimum value of 67.08 in 2005.

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 80.75
1961 81.16
1962 80.88
1963 80.28
1964 79.79
1965 79.59
1966 80.29
1967 81.06
1968 81.79
1969 82.28
1970 82.44
1971 83.15
1972 83.43
1973 83.41
1974 83.26
1975 83.07
1976 83.36
1977 83.51
1978 83.55
1979 83.48
1980 83.34
1981 83.68
1982 83.87
1983 83.95
1984 83.94
1985 83.90
1986 84.88
1987 85.76
1988 86.46
1989 86.83
1990 86.74
1991 89.85
1992 92.99
1993 96.11
1994 99.15
1995 101.94
1996 100.29
1997 98.09
1998 95.52
1999 92.91
2000 90.59
2001 84.31
2002 78.95
2003 74.37
2004 70.42
2005 67.08
2006 67.29
2007 67.64
2008 68.18
2009 68.94
2010 69.86
2011 72.09

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