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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Eswatini was 63.96 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 108.70 in 1984 and a minimum value of 63.96 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 89.48
1961 90.79
1962 91.89
1963 92.79
1964 93.53
1965 94.16
1966 94.52
1967 94.68
1968 94.73
1969 94.78
1970 94.92
1971 96.18
1972 97.48
1973 98.75
1974 99.92
1975 100.95
1976 102.38
1977 103.46
1978 104.32
1979 105.13
1980 105.98
1981 106.69
1982 107.59
1983 108.38
1984 108.70
1985 108.36
1986 107.63
1987 106.05
1988 103.98
1989 101.86
1990 99.82
1991 97.79
1992 96.23
1993 94.77
1994 92.94
1995 90.57
1996 89.01
1997 86.78
1998 84.19
1999 81.68
2000 79.41
2001 77.89
2002 76.85
2003 76.10
2004 75.39
2005 74.63
2006 73.86
2007 73.18
2008 72.57
2009 72.05
2010 71.58
2011 71.15
2012 70.47
2013 69.72
2014 69.09
2015 68.65
2016 67.37
2017 66.52
2018 65.86
2019 65.05
2020 63.96

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