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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Madagascar was 75.94 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 98.90 in 1977 and 75.94 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 85.02
1961 86.99
1962 89.00
1963 90.87
1964 92.25
1965 93.06
1966 94.51
1967 95.28
1968 95.55
1969 95.62
1970 95.67
1971 96.61
1972 97.33
1973 97.82
1974 98.05
1975 98.02
1976 98.63
1977 98.90
1978 98.88
1979 98.61
1980 98.14
1981 98.31
1982 98.15
1983 97.76
1984 97.23
1985 96.62
1986 96.46
1987 96.17
1988 95.75
1989 95.18
1990 94.51
1991 94.41
1992 94.12
1993 93.72
1994 93.30
1995 92.92
1996 93.10
1997 93.18
1998 93.17
1999 93.03
2000 92.75
2001 92.82
2002 92.61
2003 92.19
2004 91.61
2005 90.93
2006 90.25
2007 89.50
2008 88.65
2009 87.62
2010 86.41
2011 85.29
2012 83.99
2013 82.60
2014 81.29
2015 80.11
2016 79.12
2017 78.26
2018 77.48
2019 76.71
2020 75.94

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