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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Guatemala was 62.30 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 98.45 in 1986 and 62.30 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.

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Year Value
1960 94.41
1961 95.36
1962 96.34
1963 97.15
1964 97.47
1965 97.22
1966 97.41
1967 97.07
1968 96.35
1969 95.49
1970 94.63
1971 94.68
1972 94.61
1973 94.48
1974 94.32
1975 94.18
1976 94.84
1977 95.48
1978 96.04
1979 96.50
1980 96.82
1981 97.50
1982 98.00
1983 98.32
1984 98.44
1985 98.37
1986 98.45
1987 98.26
1988 97.86
1989 97.37
1990 96.89
1991 96.44
1992 96.17
1993 95.91
1994 95.48
1995 94.81
1996 94.43
1997 93.71
1998 92.81
1999 91.95
2000 91.26
2001 90.32
2002 89.57
2003 88.83
2004 87.89
2005 86.64
2006 85.15
2007 83.34
2008 81.34
2009 79.35
2010 77.48
2011 75.45
2012 73.65
2013 71.99
2014 70.37
2015 68.75
2016 67.37
2017 65.97
2018 64.60
2019 63.37
2020 62.30

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