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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Somalia was 90.58 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 98.53 in 2008 and a minimum value of 78.24 in 1960.

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 78.24
1961 79.17
1962 79.70
1963 79.93
1964 79.95
1965 79.84
1966 80.54
1967 80.98
1968 81.23
1969 81.22
1970 80.89
1971 81.43
1972 81.39
1973 80.99
1974 80.86
1975 81.74
1976 82.31
1977 82.75
1978 83.23
1979 83.33
1980 82.50
1981 82.85
1982 83.08
1983 82.91
1984 82.43
1985 81.94
1986 82.35
1987 82.71
1988 83.11
1989 83.45
1990 83.61
1991 84.59
1992 85.29
1993 85.81
1994 86.43
1995 87.47
1996 88.92
1997 90.36
1998 91.83
1999 93.12
2000 94.08
2001 95.49
2002 96.29
2003 96.64
2004 96.78
2005 96.81
2006 97.49
2007 98.12
2008 98.53
2009 98.52
2010 98.05
2011 97.92
2012 97.26
2013 96.26
2014 95.22
2015 94.27
2016 93.46
2017 92.78
2018 92.14
2019 91.42
2020 90.58

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