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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Ethiopia was 76.85 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 99.06 in 1997 and 76.85 in 2020.

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 85.53
1961 85.81
1962 85.79
1963 85.60
1964 85.37
1965 85.16
1966 85.99
1967 86.55
1968 86.94
1969 87.26
1970 87.56
1971 88.56
1972 89.47
1973 90.26
1974 90.82
1975 91.04
1976 91.45
1977 91.80
1978 92.18
1979 92.73
1980 93.51
1981 94.76
1982 95.64
1983 96.22
1984 96.53
1985 96.64
1986 97.28
1987 97.65
1988 97.84
1989 97.91
1990 97.86
1991 98.49
1992 98.85
1993 98.98
1994 98.92
1995 98.70
1996 98.97
1997 99.06
1998 98.97
1999 98.70
2000 98.27
2001 98.65
2002 98.77
2003 98.74
2004 98.64
2005 98.43
2006 97.84
2007 97.04
2008 95.98
2009 94.67
2010 93.17
2011 91.36
2012 89.50
2013 87.62
2014 85.75
2015 83.92
2016 82.46
2017 80.96
2018 79.48
2019 78.10
2020 76.85

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