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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Barbados was 50.29 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 86.08 in 1965 and 48.89 in 2008.

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 81.54
1961 83.02
1962 84.08
1963 84.83
1964 85.47
1965 86.08
1966 86.03
1967 85.68
1968 85.04
1969 84.18
1970 83.12
1971 79.86
1972 77.28
1973 75.15
1974 73.05
1975 70.82
1976 69.98
1977 68.68
1978 67.61
1979 67.30
1980 67.66
1981 65.48
1982 63.93
1983 62.63
1984 61.14
1985 59.35
1986 58.10
1987 56.48
1988 54.75
1989 53.29
1990 52.23
1991 51.52
1992 51.22
1993 51.17
1994 51.13
1995 51.02
1996 51.03
1997 50.98
1998 50.94
1999 51.02
2000 51.25
2001 50.63
2002 50.20
2003 49.88
2004 49.59
2005 49.28
2006 49.14
2007 48.97
2008 48.89
2009 48.98
2010 49.24
2011 49.10
2012 49.06
2013 49.08
2014 49.12
2015 49.18
2016 49.24
2017 49.37
2018 49.58
2019 49.88
2020 50.29

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