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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Morocco was 52.38 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 105.76 in 1967 and 51.78 in 2015.

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 91.16
1961 93.96
1962 97.11
1963 100.19
1964 102.54
1965 103.80
1966 105.24
1967 105.76
1968 105.56
1969 104.99
1970 104.21
1971 103.42
1972 102.27
1973 100.83
1974 99.12
1975 97.20
1976 95.22
1977 93.14
1978 91.06
1979 89.08
1980 87.26
1981 86.04
1982 84.90
1983 83.84
1984 82.80
1985 81.75
1986 81.10
1987 80.21
1988 79.18
1989 78.17
1990 77.24
1991 76.08
1992 75.18
1993 74.32
1994 73.22
1995 71.76
1996 70.41
1997 68.65
1998 66.70
1999 64.86
2000 63.29
2001 61.69
2002 60.48
2003 59.49
2004 58.53
2005 57.51
2006 56.58
2007 55.55
2008 54.52
2009 53.66
2010 53.04
2011 52.43
2012 52.07
2013 51.90
2014 51.82
2015 51.78
2016 51.93
2017 51.99
2018 52.02
2019 52.14
2020 52.38

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