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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Cambodia was 55.71 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 98.23 in 1994 and 55.39 in 2016.

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 93.30
1961 94.21
1962 95.49
1963 96.77
1964 97.45
1965 97.26
1966 97.33
1967 96.56
1968 95.24
1969 93.86
1970 92.70
1971 91.77
1972 91.17
1973 90.68
1974 89.68
1975 87.71
1976 86.31
1977 83.83
1978 80.82
1979 78.51
1980 77.87
1981 76.39
1982 77.30
1983 79.59
1984 81.63
1985 82.63
1986 85.81
1987 86.69
1988 86.56
1989 87.21
1990 89.34
1991 90.72
1992 93.41
1993 96.43
1994 98.23
1995 98.05
1996 97.31
1997 94.56
1998 90.22
1999 85.36
2000 80.74
2001 76.97
2002 74.07
2003 71.86
2004 69.92
2005 67.93
2006 65.84
2007 63.82
2008 61.89
2009 60.21
2010 58.88
2011 58.02
2012 57.13
2013 56.35
2014 55.83
2015 55.57
2016 55.39
2017 55.48
2018 55.69
2019 55.80
2020 55.71

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