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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Fiji was 53.44 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 101.97 in 1960 and 51.10 in 2010.

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 101.97
1961 101.78
1962 100.97
1963 99.72
1964 98.19
1965 96.39
1966 94.66
1967 92.70
1968 90.49
1969 88.01
1970 85.29
1971 83.33
1972 81.16
1973 78.86
1974 76.55
1975 74.33
1976 73.90
1977 73.42
1978 72.90
1979 72.38
1980 71.92
1981 71.68
1982 71.50
1983 71.55
1984 71.77
1985 71.94
1986 71.89
1987 71.72
1988 71.42
1989 71.01
1990 70.57
1991 69.78
1992 68.99
1993 68.06
1994 66.90
1995 65.53
1996 65.21
1997 64.56
1998 63.79
1999 63.09
2000 62.46
2001 60.04
2002 58.02
2003 56.25
2004 54.56
2005 52.97
2006 52.90
2007 52.59
2008 52.10
2009 51.56
2010 51.10
2011 51.40
2012 51.76
2013 52.24
2014 52.83
2015 53.42
2016 53.57
2017 53.71
2018 53.76
2019 53.65
2020 53.44

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