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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Kenya was 69.78 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 112.80 in 1977 and 69.78 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 100.97
1961 103.32
1962 105.26
1963 106.77
1964 107.83
1965 108.49
1966 109.57
1967 110.13
1968 110.33
1969 110.39
1970 110.44
1971 110.99
1972 111.45
1973 111.82
1974 112.03
1975 112.09
1976 112.59
1977 112.80
1978 112.79
1979 112.70
1980 112.57
1981 112.71
1982 112.74
1983 112.62
1984 112.25
1985 111.60
1986 111.23
1987 110.50
1988 109.47
1989 108.16
1990 106.58
1991 105.03
1992 103.09
1993 100.93
1994 98.77
1995 96.75
1996 95.29
1997 94.16
1998 93.14
1999 91.97
2000 90.56
2001 89.92
2002 88.81
2003 87.51
2004 86.38
2005 85.56
2006 84.91
2007 84.53
2008 84.26
2009 83.81
2010 83.06
2011 82.32
2012 81.23
2013 79.92
2014 78.53
2015 77.13
2016 75.68
2017 74.23
2018 72.78
2019 71.28
2020 69.78

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