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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Suriname was 51.06 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 109.84 in 1968 and 51.06 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 105.66
1961 106.87
1962 107.49
1963 107.71
1964 107.72
1965 107.57
1966 108.91
1967 109.68
1968 109.84
1969 109.35
1970 108.20
1971 107.36
1972 106.77
1973 106.39
1974 106.17
1975 105.97
1976 100.22
1977 94.60
1978 89.08
1979 83.88
1980 79.31
1981 75.27
1982 72.38
1983 70.31
1984 68.65
1985 67.20
1986 66.81
1987 65.88
1988 64.84
1989 64.15
1990 63.98
1991 63.95
1992 64.35
1993 64.98
1994 65.47
1995 65.62
1996 65.20
1997 64.54
1998 63.68
1999 62.74
2000 61.81
2001 61.35
2002 60.88
2003 60.41
2004 59.90
2005 59.31
2006 58.59
2007 57.75
2008 56.84
2009 55.99
2010 55.22
2011 54.59
2012 54.07
2013 53.62
2014 53.17
2015 52.71
2016 52.41
2017 52.06
2018 51.69
2019 51.35
2020 51.06

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