Small states - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Small states was 56.08 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 87.03 in 1969 and 56.08 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 82.94
1961 83.93
1962 84.75
1963 85.37
1964 85.77
1965 85.93
1966 86.52
1967 86.86
1968 87.00
1969 87.03
1970 86.95
1971 86.42
1972 85.91
1973 85.38
1974 84.74
1975 83.98
1976 83.37
1977 82.65
1978 81.93
1979 81.33
1980 80.87
1981 80.38
1982 80.01
1983 79.70
1984 79.35
1985 78.88
1986 78.66
1987 78.21
1988 77.66
1989 77.12
1990 76.63
1991 76.26
1992 75.94
1993 75.60
1994 75.08
1995 74.36
1996 73.86
1997 73.11
1998 72.23
1999 71.31
2000 70.40
2001 69.33
2002 68.32
2003 67.33
2004 66.28
2005 65.17
2006 63.86
2007 62.51
2008 61.20
2009 60.03
2010 59.04
2011 58.47
2012 57.98
2013 57.58
2014 57.26
2015 56.99
2016 56.80
2017 56.60
2018 56.42
2019 56.25
2020 56.08

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