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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Mali was 93.06 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 97.00 in 2014 and a minimum value of 71.74 in 1960.

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 71.74
1961 72.68
1962 73.58
1963 74.32
1964 74.69
1965 74.59
1966 75.73
1967 76.26
1968 76.34
1969 76.22
1970 76.05
1971 77.14
1972 77.91
1973 78.46
1974 78.82
1975 79.01
1976 80.53
1977 81.69
1978 82.55
1979 83.18
1980 83.64
1981 85.14
1982 86.31
1983 87.18
1984 87.76
1985 88.03
1986 89.94
1987 91.47
1988 92.66
1989 93.65
1990 94.50
1991 94.80
1992 94.87
1993 94.74
1994 94.42
1995 93.90
1996 94.11
1997 93.97
1998 93.62
1999 93.23
2000 92.89
2001 93.08
2002 93.21
2003 93.31
2004 93.35
2005 93.36
2006 94.12
2007 94.69
2008 95.09
2009 95.34
2010 95.42
2011 96.26
2012 96.77
2013 96.99
2014 97.00
2015 96.82
2016 96.44
2017 95.90
2018 95.18
2019 94.23
2020 93.06

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