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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Liberia was 71.70 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 88.77 in 1987 and a minimum value of 71.70 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 73.81
1961 74.90
1962 76.19
1963 77.52
1964 78.55
1965 79.13
1966 80.45
1967 81.22
1968 81.59
1969 81.76
1970 81.89
1971 82.77
1972 83.42
1973 83.89
1974 84.20
1975 84.38
1976 85.22
1977 85.76
1978 86.06
1979 86.28
1980 86.49
1981 87.28
1982 87.98
1983 88.53
1984 88.69
1985 88.20
1986 88.69
1987 88.77
1988 88.43
1989 87.71
1990 86.72
1991 86.17
1992 85.08
1993 83.70
1994 82.53
1995 82.17
1996 81.52
1997 80.96
1998 80.60
1999 80.17
2000 79.30
2001 79.72
2002 79.88
2003 79.77
2004 79.65
2005 79.76
2006 80.06
2007 80.32
2008 80.54
2009 80.57
2010 80.25
2011 79.99
2012 79.50
2013 78.80
2014 77.91
2015 76.90
2016 76.01
2017 75.01
2018 73.94
2019 72.82
2020 71.70

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