Papua New Guinea - Age dependency ratio

Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Papua New Guinea was 63.18 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 86.35 in 1978 and 63.18 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 82.20
1961 83.05
1962 83.97
1963 84.83
1964 85.40
1965 85.62
1966 86.13
1967 86.26
1968 86.13
1969 85.91
1970 85.69
1971 85.88
1972 86.01
1973 86.07
1974 86.06
1975 85.97
1976 86.21
1977 86.33
1978 86.35
1979 86.28
1980 86.14
1981 86.22
1982 86.16
1983 85.95
1984 85.58
1985 85.05
1986 84.68
1987 84.08
1988 83.32
1989 82.46
1990 81.55
1991 80.74
1992 79.95
1993 79.14
1994 78.32
1995 77.49
1996 76.98
1997 76.47
1998 75.96
1999 75.46
2000 74.95
2001 74.81
2002 74.54
2003 74.19
2004 73.84
2005 73.50
2006 73.16
2007 72.83
2008 72.47
2009 71.97
2010 71.29
2011 70.61
2012 69.74
2013 68.75
2014 67.75
2015 66.80
2016 66.05
2017 65.34
2018 64.64
2019 63.92
2020 63.18

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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Papua New Guinea was 5.83 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 5.83 in 2020 and a minimum value of 4.72 in 1970.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, old, is the ratio of older dependents--people 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 4.87
1961 4.88
1962 4.88
1963 4.87
1964 4.83
1965 4.75
1966 4.80
1967 4.82
1968 4.81
1969 4.77
1970 4.72
1971 4.78
1972 4.81
1973 4.81
1974 4.80
1975 4.77
1976 4.84
1977 4.88
1978 4.90
1979 4.92
1980 4.91
1981 4.97
1982 5.02
1983 5.05
1984 5.06
1985 5.07
1986 5.12
1987 5.16
1988 5.18
1989 5.19
1990 5.18
1991 5.23
1992 5.27
1993 5.29
1994 5.29
1995 5.29
1996 5.33
1997 5.36
1998 5.38
1999 5.39
2000 5.39
2001 5.44
2002 5.48
2003 5.51
2004 5.52
2005 5.52
2006 5.57
2007 5.61
2008 5.64
2009 5.67
2010 5.68
2011 5.63
2012 5.57
2013 5.51
2014 5.45
2015 5.42
2016 5.50
2017 5.59
2018 5.67
2019 5.75
2020 5.83

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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Papua New Guinea was 57.35 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 81.45 in 1977 and a minimum value of 57.35 in 2020.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 77.32
1961 78.17
1962 79.09
1963 79.96
1964 80.57
1965 80.87
1966 81.33
1967 81.45
1968 81.33
1969 81.14
1970 80.97
1971 81.11
1972 81.20
1973 81.25
1974 81.25
1975 81.20
1976 81.38
1977 81.45
1978 81.44
1979 81.37
1980 81.23
1981 81.25
1982 81.14
1983 80.90
1984 80.52
1985 79.98
1986 79.56
1987 78.93
1988 78.14
1989 77.28
1990 76.37
1991 75.51
1992 74.68
1993 73.86
1994 73.02
1995 72.20
1996 71.65
1997 71.10
1998 70.58
1999 70.07
2000 69.56
2001 69.37
2002 69.06
2003 68.69
2004 68.31
2005 67.98
2006 67.58
2007 67.22
2008 66.82
2009 66.30
2010 65.61
2011 64.98
2012 64.17
2013 63.24
2014 62.30
2015 61.38
2016 60.55
2017 59.75
2018 58.97
2019 58.17
2020 57.35

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population