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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Lesotho was 51.32 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 92.62 in 1983 and a minimum value of 51.32 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 87.78
1961 88.51
1962 88.94
1963 89.17
1964 89.30
1965 89.41
1966 89.64
1967 89.84
1968 89.98
1969 90.05
1970 90.06
1971 90.55
1972 90.92
1973 91.21
1974 91.46
1975 91.71
1976 91.98
1977 92.10
1978 92.11
1979 92.01
1980 91.80
1981 92.20
1982 92.49
1983 92.62
1984 92.53
1985 92.16
1986 92.22
1987 92.01
1988 91.52
1989 90.77
1990 89.78
1991 87.91
1992 85.98
1993 83.96
1994 81.85
1995 79.67
1996 78.14
1997 76.57
1998 74.97
1999 73.32
2000 71.57
2001 69.95
2002 68.40
2003 66.82
2004 65.21
2005 63.61
2006 62.59
2007 61.37
2008 60.08
2009 58.85
2010 57.73
2011 57.15
2012 56.57
2013 55.89
2014 55.04
2015 54.05
2016 53.64
2017 53.07
2018 52.44
2019 51.86
2020 51.32

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