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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Ethiopia was 70.59 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 92.88 in 1997 and a minimum value of 70.59 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 80.63
1961 80.92
1962 80.94
1963 80.79
1964 80.60
1965 80.40
1966 81.16
1967 81.65
1968 81.97
1969 82.23
1970 82.49
1971 83.40
1972 84.24
1973 84.99
1974 85.51
1975 85.72
1976 85.96
1977 86.14
1978 86.34
1979 86.71
1980 87.31
1981 88.57
1982 89.50
1983 90.14
1984 90.53
1985 90.70
1986 91.25
1987 91.54
1988 91.65
1989 91.68
1990 91.61
1991 92.23
1992 92.61
1993 92.78
1994 92.76
1995 92.56
1996 92.82
1997 92.88
1998 92.78
1999 92.52
2000 92.12
2001 92.47
2002 92.58
2003 92.56
2004 92.47
2005 92.25
2006 91.61
2007 90.77
2008 89.67
2009 88.33
2010 86.80
2011 84.97
2012 83.11
2013 81.24
2014 79.38
2015 77.57
2016 76.12
2017 74.65
2018 73.20
2019 71.84
2020 70.59

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