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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Aruba was 21.48 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 21.48 in 2020 and a minimum value of 4.63 in 1960.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, old, is the ratio of older dependents--people 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 4.63
1961 4.78
1962 4.95
1963 5.12
1964 5.32
1965 5.53
1966 5.77
1967 5.99
1968 6.23
1969 6.50
1970 6.82
1971 7.32
1972 7.86
1973 8.41
1974 8.91
1975 9.36
1976 9.58
1977 9.78
1978 9.94
1979 10.10
1980 10.28
1981 10.40
1982 10.52
1983 10.61
1984 10.70
1985 10.74
1986 10.89
1987 11.03
1988 11.14
1989 11.23
1990 11.29
1991 10.79
1992 10.39
1993 10.12
1994 9.97
1995 9.92
1996 10.06
1997 10.23
1998 10.44
1999 10.67
2000 10.95
2001 11.19
2002 11.46
2003 11.74
2004 12.02
2005 12.29
2006 12.77
2007 13.24
2008 13.75
2009 14.30
2010 14.95
2011 15.36
2012 15.83
2013 16.35
2014 16.92
2015 17.55
2016 18.23
2017 18.96
2018 19.74
2019 20.58
2020 21.48

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

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population