Virgin Islands - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Virgin Islands was 65.98 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 86.55 in 1960 and 49.17 in 2005.

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 86.55
1961 84.63
1962 83.71
1963 83.77
1964 83.70
1965 82.56
1966 79.55
1967 75.90
1968 71.93
1969 68.50
1970 66.35
1971 68.84
1972 72.53
1973 77.09
1974 81.20
1975 83.39
1976 84.51
1977 82.79
1978 78.57
1979 73.33
1980 68.43
1981 65.83
1982 64.37
1983 64.10
1984 64.20
1985 63.73
1986 63.70
1987 62.09
1988 59.22
1989 56.18
1990 53.86
1991 52.40
1992 52.13
1993 52.85
1994 53.65
1995 53.81
1996 54.93
1997 54.91
1998 54.11
1999 53.25
2000 52.76
2001 51.12
2002 50.01
2003 49.47
2004 49.26
2005 49.17
2006 49.46
2007 49.85
2008 50.33
2009 51.05
2010 52.02
2011 53.61
2012 55.31
2013 57.10
2014 58.93
2015 60.72
2016 61.90
2017 62.97
2018 63.94
2019 64.93
2020 65.98

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