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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Haiti was 52.08 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 82.00 in 1990 and a minimum value of 52.08 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 71.28
1961 72.15
1962 73.24
1963 74.37
1964 75.23
1965 75.64
1966 76.38
1967 76.61
1968 76.45
1969 76.10
1970 75.64
1971 75.51
1972 75.20
1973 74.77
1974 74.31
1975 73.86
1976 73.73
1977 73.72
1978 73.82
1979 74.00
1980 74.28
1981 75.19
1982 76.14
1983 77.10
1984 78.03
1985 78.85
1986 80.08
1987 80.88
1988 81.39
1989 81.75
1990 82.00
1991 81.83
1992 81.71
1993 81.46
1994 80.83
1995 79.76
1996 78.69
1997 77.23
1998 75.55
1999 73.88
2000 72.34
2001 71.03
2002 69.78
2003 68.60
2004 67.45
2005 66.31
2006 65.26
2007 64.25
2008 63.24
2009 62.23
2010 61.21
2011 60.25
2012 59.27
2013 58.29
2014 57.32
2015 56.36
2016 55.50
2017 54.64
2018 53.78
2019 52.93
2020 52.08

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