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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Solomon Islands was 71.10 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 96.93 in 1983 and a minimum value of 71.10 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 77.91
1961 78.39
1962 79.10
1963 79.99
1964 80.88
1965 81.56
1966 81.73
1967 81.65
1968 81.37
1969 81.16
1970 81.25
1971 83.73
1972 86.73
1973 90.04
1974 93.25
1975 96.02
1976 96.57
1977 96.50
1978 96.12
1979 95.85
1980 95.83
1981 96.17
1982 96.62
1983 96.93
1984 96.80
1985 96.07
1986 94.98
1987 93.55
1988 91.80
1989 89.84
1990 87.81
1991 86.41
1992 84.80
1993 83.14
1994 81.59
1995 80.21
1996 79.28
1997 78.39
1998 77.56
1999 76.74
2000 75.91
2001 75.53
2002 75.23
2003 74.97
2004 74.66
2005 74.22
2006 73.90
2007 73.52
2008 73.16
2009 72.94
2010 72.89
2011 72.59
2012 72.46
2013 72.40
2014 72.32
2015 72.14
2016 72.16
2017 71.97
2018 71.66
2019 71.36
2020 71.10

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