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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Mali was 97.96 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 102.54 in 1992 and 75.73 in 1960.

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 75.73
1961 76.75
1962 77.69
1963 78.45
1964 78.81
1965 78.69
1966 79.99
1967 80.66
1968 80.86
1969 80.82
1970 80.71
1971 81.99
1972 82.94
1973 83.63
1974 84.11
1975 84.39
1976 86.13
1977 87.47
1978 88.49
1979 89.25
1980 89.80
1981 91.52
1982 92.89
1983 93.93
1984 94.63
1985 94.98
1986 97.12
1987 98.83
1988 100.18
1989 101.29
1990 102.23
1991 102.52
1992 102.54
1993 102.33
1994 101.91
1995 101.26
1996 101.36
1997 101.08
1998 100.57
1999 100.00
2000 99.47
2001 99.53
2002 99.51
2003 99.44
2004 99.33
2005 99.19
2006 99.91
2007 100.43
2008 100.79
2009 100.96
2010 100.94
2011 101.73
2012 102.15
2013 102.28
2014 102.19
2015 101.93
2016 101.52
2017 100.96
2018 100.20
2019 99.20
2020 97.96

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