Jamaica - Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Jamaica was 13.44 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 13.44 in 2020 and a minimum value of 8.00 in 1960.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, old, is the ratio of older dependents--people 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 8.00
1961 8.47
1962 8.98
1963 9.49
1964 10.00
1965 10.53
1966 10.73
1967 10.97
1968 11.21
1969 11.45
1970 11.68
1971 11.78
1972 11.86
1973 11.88
1974 11.86
1975 11.78
1976 11.93
1977 12.08
1978 12.24
1979 12.43
1980 12.61
1981 12.62
1982 12.58
1983 12.53
1984 12.45
1985 12.37
1986 12.35
1987 12.35
1988 12.38
1989 12.45
1990 12.56
1991 12.55
1992 12.55
1993 12.54
1994 12.51
1995 12.47
1996 12.55
1997 12.64
1998 12.75
1999 12.88
2000 13.01
2001 12.96
2002 12.90
2003 12.84
2004 12.81
2005 12.80
2006 12.77
2007 12.75
2008 12.73
2009 12.71
2010 12.72
2011 12.69
2012 12.67
2013 12.68
2014 12.70
2015 12.72
2016 12.82
2017 12.92
2018 13.04
2019 13.21
2020 13.44

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