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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Benin was 82.56 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 98.54 in 1988 and 77.16 in 1960.

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 77.16
1961 78.43
1962 79.67
1963 80.85
1964 81.85
1965 82.62
1966 84.30
1967 85.65
1968 86.74
1969 87.63
1970 88.37
1971 89.84
1972 91.00
1973 91.91
1974 92.60
1975 93.11
1976 94.21
1977 95.04
1978 95.63
1979 96.02
1980 96.22
1981 97.01
1982 97.49
1983 97.72
1984 97.79
1985 97.74
1986 98.23
1987 98.48
1988 98.54
1989 98.43
1990 98.18
1991 97.99
1992 97.57
1993 97.00
1994 96.31
1995 95.51
1996 95.53
1997 95.31
1998 94.92
1999 94.40
2000 93.78
2001 93.43
2002 92.91
2003 92.28
2004 91.57
2005 90.82
2006 90.64
2007 90.37
2008 90.01
2009 89.54
2010 88.95
2011 88.61
2012 88.11
2013 87.49
2014 86.81
2015 86.10
2016 85.53
2017 84.89
2018 84.17
2019 83.39
2020 82.56

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