West Bank and Gaza - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in West Bank and Gaza was 71.17 as of 2020. Over the past 30 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 102.98 in 1996 and 71.17 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.

See also:

Year Value
1990 102.62
1991 102.75
1992 102.84
1993 102.89
1994 102.90
1995 102.82
1996 102.98
1997 102.73
1998 102.20
1999 101.43
2000 100.33
2001 99.02
2002 97.68
2003 96.17
2004 94.41
2005 92.47
2006 90.27
2007 88.07
2008 85.92
2009 83.88
2010 81.98
2011 80.46
2012 78.99
2013 77.60
2014 76.33
2015 75.19
2016 74.34
2017 73.48
2018 72.65
2019 71.89
2020 71.17

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