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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Benin was 76.57 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 90.85 in 1989 and a minimum value of 68.26 in 1960.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, young, is the ratio of younger dependents--people younger than 15--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 68.26
1961 69.54
1962 70.83
1963 72.10
1964 73.24
1965 74.21
1966 75.74
1967 76.98
1968 78.00
1969 78.86
1970 79.60
1971 80.97
1972 82.08
1973 82.97
1974 83.68
1975 84.25
1976 85.34
1977 86.19
1978 86.85
1979 87.34
1980 87.66
1981 88.52
1982 89.08
1983 89.43
1984 89.64
1985 89.75
1986 90.31
1987 90.66
1988 90.83
1989 90.85
1990 90.75
1991 90.67
1992 90.38
1993 89.94
1994 89.38
1995 88.71
1996 88.81
1997 88.69
1998 88.40
1999 87.98
2000 87.47
2001 87.18
2002 86.73
2003 86.16
2004 85.51
2005 84.80
2006 84.59
2007 84.29
2008 83.91
2009 83.42
2010 82.85
2011 82.51
2012 82.02
2013 81.43
2014 80.78
2015 80.09
2016 79.53
2017 78.89
2018 78.17
2019 77.40
2020 76.57

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