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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Rwanda was 68.76 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 105.18 in 1988 and a minimum value of 68.76 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.

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Year Value
1960 97.36
1961 99.89
1962 101.48
1963 102.35
1964 102.88
1965 103.30
1966 102.28
1967 101.11
1968 99.82
1969 98.35
1970 96.73
1971 96.22
1972 95.54
1973 94.83
1974 94.23
1975 93.83
1976 94.38
1977 94.91
1978 95.46
1979 96.07
1980 96.74
1981 98.27
1982 99.62
1983 100.81
1984 101.89
1985 102.92
1986 103.87
1987 104.69
1988 105.18
1989 104.60
1990 102.10
1991 99.28
1992 94.77
1993 88.56
1994 81.83
1995 76.46
1996 77.05
1997 78.46
1998 80.94
1999 83.62
2000 85.35
2001 84.19
2002 82.64
2003 80.68
2004 78.73
2005 77.20
2006 76.26
2007 75.64
2008 75.25
2009 74.86
2010 74.32
2011 73.97
2012 73.39
2013 72.70
2014 72.06
2015 71.57
2016 70.86
2017 70.40
2018 70.03
2019 69.51
2020 68.76

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