Caribbean small states - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Caribbean small states was 48.18 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 100.56 in 1970 and 48.16 in 2019.

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 90.31
1961 91.93
1962 93.36
1963 94.53
1964 95.48
1965 96.24
1966 97.38
1967 98.44
1968 99.37
1969 100.11
1970 100.56
1971 99.07
1972 97.66
1973 96.19
1974 94.53
1975 92.66
1976 89.90
1977 87.18
1978 84.67
1979 82.59
1980 80.97
1981 79.10
1982 77.70
1983 76.61
1984 75.49
1985 74.15
1986 73.27
1987 72.07
1988 70.78
1989 69.78
1990 69.18
1991 68.22
1992 67.63
1993 67.21
1994 66.69
1995 65.93
1996 65.05
1997 64.05
1998 63.04
1999 62.16
2000 61.43
2001 60.52
2002 59.67
2003 58.86
2004 58.04
2005 57.19
2006 56.05
2007 54.96
2008 53.89
2009 52.87
2010 51.95
2011 51.17
2012 50.47
2013 49.87
2014 49.35
2015 48.91
2016 48.66
2017 48.42
2018 48.24
2019 48.16
2020 48.18

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