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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Maldives was 30.20 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 101.52 in 1992 and 30.20 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 69.50
1961 71.78
1962 73.97
1963 76.15
1964 78.34
1965 80.48
1966 83.71
1967 86.94
1968 89.98
1969 92.59
1970 94.60
1971 95.42
1972 95.46
1973 94.94
1974 94.04
1975 92.94
1976 93.12
1977 92.87
1978 92.43
1979 92.10
1980 92.09
1981 92.40
1982 93.19
1983 94.21
1984 95.10
1985 95.69
1986 97.81
1987 99.17
1988 100.02
1989 100.69
1990 101.22
1991 101.47
1992 101.52
1993 101.16
1994 100.09
1995 98.13
1996 95.14
1997 91.59
1998 87.61
1999 83.45
2000 79.30
2001 73.78
2002 68.63
2003 63.92
2004 59.70
2005 55.99
2006 52.48
2007 49.40
2008 46.76
2009 44.49
2010 42.55
2011 40.25
2012 38.10
2013 36.25
2014 34.76
2015 33.61
2016 32.63
2017 31.88
2018 31.32
2019 30.81
2020 30.20

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