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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Guyana was 42.49 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 97.79 in 1965 and a minimum value of 42.49 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 93.04
1961 94.81
1962 96.23
1963 97.25
1964 97.79
1965 97.79
1966 97.54
1967 97.17
1968 96.66
1969 96.02
1970 95.27
1971 92.77
1972 90.46
1973 88.47
1974 86.89
1975 85.64
1976 84.22
1977 83.05
1978 81.87
1979 80.44
1980 78.70
1981 76.49
1982 74.55
1983 72.92
1984 71.35
1985 69.58
1986 67.59
1987 65.32
1988 63.10
1989 61.37
1990 60.34
1991 59.70
1992 59.56
1993 59.78
1994 60.03
1995 60.09
1996 59.53
1997 58.88
1998 58.43
1999 58.51
2000 59.16
2001 59.57
2002 60.32
2003 61.13
2004 61.57
2005 61.42
2006 59.48
2007 57.29
2008 54.99
2009 52.84
2010 51.00
2011 49.51
2012 48.21
2013 47.09
2014 46.09
2015 45.18
2016 44.51
2017 43.82
2018 43.18
2019 42.73
2020 42.49

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