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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Aruba was 47.03 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 86.33 in 1960 and 42.99 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 86.33
1961 84.99
1962 83.88
1963 82.78
1964 81.42
1965 79.76
1966 78.33
1967 76.36
1968 74.17
1969 72.15
1970 70.42
1971 67.92
1972 65.98
1973 64.23
1974 62.24
1975 59.83
1976 58.53
1977 56.62
1978 54.26
1979 51.95
1980 50.07
1981 48.84
1982 47.98
1983 47.48
1984 47.18
1985 46.73
1986 47.59
1987 48.00
1988 47.90
1989 47.60
1990 47.50
1991 45.94
1992 44.88
1993 44.30
1994 43.94
1995 43.54
1996 43.99
1997 44.25
1998 44.34
1999 44.38
2000 44.42
2001 44.25
2002 44.05
2003 43.77
2004 43.40
2005 42.99
2006 43.15
2007 43.49
2008 44.00
2009 44.59
2010 45.27
2011 45.17
2012 44.96
2013 44.70
2014 44.55
2015 44.59
2016 44.64
2017 45.04
2018 45.67
2019 46.37
2020 47.03

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