Timor-Leste - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Timor-Leste was 69.82 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 94.46 in 2003 and 68.96 in 1989.

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 77.53
1961 77.42
1962 76.43
1963 75.05
1964 73.96
1965 73.41
1966 73.88
1967 74.56
1968 75.34
1969 75.94
1970 76.24
1971 76.93
1972 77.43
1973 77.64
1974 77.30
1975 76.21
1976 77.23
1977 77.10
1978 76.12
1979 75.03
1980 74.35
1981 72.33
1982 71.38
1983 71.04
1984 70.57
1985 69.63
1986 70.21
1987 69.80
1988 69.08
1989 68.96
1990 69.81
1991 71.17
1992 73.45
1993 76.19
1994 78.57
1995 80.13
1996 83.83
1997 86.66
1998 88.87
1999 90.99
2000 93.35
2001 93.46
2002 93.95
2003 94.46
2004 94.45
2005 93.70
2006 93.36
2007 92.14
2008 90.41
2009 88.69
2010 87.19
2011 85.07
2012 83.31
2013 81.71
2014 80.02
2015 78.17
2016 76.23
2017 74.40
2018 72.70
2019 71.17
2020 69.82

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