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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Micronesia was 55.24 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 106.74 in 1975 and 55.24 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 95.70
1961 96.62
1962 98.47
1963 100.57
1964 101.91
1965 102.16
1966 102.19
1967 101.38
1968 100.00
1969 98.51
1970 97.06
1971 98.60
1972 100.29
1973 102.12
1974 104.21
1975 106.74
1976 105.71
1977 104.91
1978 104.34
1979 103.89
1980 103.43
1981 102.10
1982 101.01
1983 99.88
1984 98.35
1985 96.42
1986 95.78
1987 94.55
1988 93.08
1989 91.83
1990 91.02
1991 90.81
1992 90.87
1993 90.74
1994 90.07
1995 88.79
1996 87.20
1997 85.52
1998 83.47
1999 81.11
2000 78.58
2001 78.21
2002 77.51
2003 76.63
2004 75.68
2005 74.65
2006 71.98
2007 69.67
2008 67.55
2009 65.53
2010 63.68
2011 62.14
2012 60.52
2013 59.01
2014 57.77
2015 56.84
2016 56.13
2017 55.73
2018 55.53
2019 55.40
2020 55.24

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