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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Cameroon was 81.09 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 99.70 in 1992 and 77.86 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 77.86
1961 78.72
1962 79.51
1963 80.22
1964 80.80
1965 81.22
1966 82.37
1967 83.22
1968 83.87
1969 84.46
1970 85.02
1971 86.21
1972 87.24
1973 88.16
1974 88.94
1975 89.60
1976 90.73
1977 91.64
1978 92.39
1979 93.03
1980 93.60
1981 94.67
1982 95.60
1983 96.39
1984 97.02
1985 97.48
1986 98.39
1987 98.99
1988 99.33
1989 99.46
1990 99.39
1991 99.68
1992 99.70
1993 99.44
1994 98.89
1995 98.06
1996 97.54
1997 96.71
1998 95.65
1999 94.45
2000 93.22
2001 92.53
2002 91.79
2003 91.02
2004 90.20
2005 89.36
2006 89.05
2007 88.60
2008 88.07
2009 87.55
2010 87.04
2011 86.81
2012 86.51
2013 86.13
2014 85.63
2015 85.00
2016 84.49
2017 83.82
2018 83.02
2019 82.10
2020 81.09

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