Burkina Faso - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Burkina Faso was 87.90 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 102.41 in 1991 and 77.47 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.

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Year Value
1960 77.47
1961 78.63
1962 79.48
1963 80.10
1964 80.59
1965 81.00
1966 82.25
1967 83.35
1968 84.27
1969 84.97
1970 85.41
1971 86.79
1972 87.75
1973 88.42
1974 88.95
1975 89.44
1976 90.87
1977 92.21
1978 93.42
1979 94.40
1980 95.15
1981 96.73
1982 97.89
1983 98.73
1984 99.40
1985 99.93
1986 100.95
1987 101.68
1988 102.12
1989 102.28
1990 102.17
1991 102.41
1992 102.34
1993 102.00
1994 101.43
1995 100.67
1996 100.57
1997 100.17
1998 99.58
1999 98.89
2000 98.16
2001 98.07
2002 97.80
2003 97.39
2004 96.89
2005 96.32
2006 96.33
2007 96.18
2008 95.88
2009 95.46
2010 94.90
2011 94.72
2012 94.30
2013 93.71
2014 93.01
2015 92.24
2016 91.56
2017 90.80
2018 89.95
2019 88.98
2020 87.90

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