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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Samoa was 73.26 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 116.88 in 1967 and 73.26 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 106.48
1961 107.29
1962 109.33
1963 112.02
1964 114.37
1965 115.82
1966 116.81
1967 116.88
1968 116.05
1969 114.90
1970 113.78
1971 113.15
1972 112.87
1973 112.49
1974 111.60
1975 110.13
1976 107.53
1977 104.76
1978 101.79
1979 98.81
1980 96.05
1981 93.65
1982 91.38
1983 89.09
1984 86.84
1985 84.77
1986 83.41
1987 82.32
1988 81.24
1989 80.15
1990 79.23
1991 79.03
1992 79.30
1993 79.88
1994 80.58
1995 81.31
1996 81.10
1997 81.07
1998 81.24
1999 81.67
2000 82.34
2001 81.36
2002 80.83
2003 80.53
2004 80.19
2005 79.72
2006 78.93
2007 78.08
2008 77.25
2009 76.60
2010 76.29
2011 75.65
2012 75.24
2013 75.24
2014 75.71
2015 76.47
2016 76.20
2017 76.15
2018 75.81
2019 74.82
2020 73.26

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