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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Sudan was 70.41 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 94.48 in 1978 and a minimum value of 70.41 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 86.91
1961 87.63
1962 88.17
1963 88.56
1964 88.84
1965 89.03
1966 89.78
1967 90.33
1968 90.73
1969 91.04
1970 91.29
1971 92.02
1972 92.56
1973 92.96
1974 93.25
1975 93.46
1976 93.99
1977 94.33
1978 94.48
1979 94.44
1980 94.21
1981 94.29
1982 94.10
1983 93.67
1984 93.05
1985 92.26
1986 91.75
1987 91.02
1988 90.14
1989 89.20
1990 88.28
1991 87.33
1992 86.46
1993 85.62
1994 84.71
1995 83.68
1996 83.66
1997 83.43
1998 83.06
1999 82.71
2000 82.43
2001 82.29
2002 82.18
2003 82.06
2004 81.81
2005 81.39
2006 81.38
2007 81.20
2008 80.88
2009 80.48
2010 80.01
2011 79.27
2012 78.41
2013 77.46
2014 76.44
2015 75.39
2016 74.45
2017 73.47
2018 72.45
2019 71.43
2020 70.41

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