Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) was 83.43 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 96.31 in 1988 and 83.43 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 85.82
1961 86.68
1962 87.29
1963 87.71
1964 87.96
1965 88.07
1966 89.00
1967 89.63
1968 90.02
1969 90.25
1970 90.34
1971 91.14
1972 91.70
1973 92.05
1974 92.24
1975 92.28
1976 92.93
1977 93.39
1978 93.71
1979 93.90
1980 93.96
1981 94.69
1982 95.14
1983 95.38
1984 95.45
1985 95.41
1986 95.94
1987 96.22
1988 96.31
1989 96.24
1990 96.03
1991 96.13
1992 96.03
1993 95.77
1994 95.38
1995 94.86
1996 95.04
1997 95.02
1998 94.85
1999 94.57
2000 94.21
2001 94.21
2002 94.05
2003 93.77
2004 93.42
2005 92.99
2006 92.93
2007 92.74
2008 92.42
2009 91.98
2010 91.43
2011 90.96
2012 90.34
2013 89.60
2014 88.78
2015 87.91
2016 87.15
2017 86.31
2018 85.41
2019 84.44
2020 83.43

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