Fragile and conflict affected situations - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Fragile and conflict affected situations was 79.35 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 92.04 in 1987 and 79.35 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 83.27
1961 84.23
1962 85.06
1963 85.75
1964 86.22
1965 86.45
1966 87.37
1967 87.92
1968 88.19
1969 88.31
1970 88.34
1971 89.01
1972 89.48
1973 89.79
1974 89.94
1975 89.97
1976 90.41
1977 90.69
1978 90.82
1979 90.84
1980 90.74
1981 91.32
1982 91.66
1983 91.80
1984 91.77
1985 91.61
1986 91.95
1987 92.04
1988 91.95
1989 91.73
1990 91.48
1991 91.32
1992 91.01
1993 90.57
1994 90.02
1995 89.33
1996 89.16
1997 88.83
1998 88.36
1999 87.81
2000 87.23
2001 87.10
2002 86.86
2003 86.55
2004 86.20
2005 85.81
2006 85.81
2007 85.70
2008 85.49
2009 85.20
2010 84.82
2011 84.50
2012 84.07
2013 83.56
2014 82.97
2015 82.30
2016 81.91
2017 81.39
2018 80.77
2019 80.08
2020 79.35

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