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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Caribbean small states was 13.67 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 13.67 in 2020 and a minimum value of 7.85 in 1960.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, old, is the ratio of older dependents--people 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 7.85
1961 8.06
1962 8.27
1963 8.48
1964 8.69
1965 8.89
1966 9.04
1967 9.20
1968 9.37
1969 9.53
1970 9.68
1971 9.76
1972 9.84
1973 9.92
1974 9.98
1975 10.03
1976 10.14
1977 10.24
1978 10.34
1979 10.44
1980 10.54
1981 10.53
1982 10.51
1983 10.49
1984 10.47
1985 10.43
1986 10.41
1987 10.40
1988 10.42
1989 10.47
1990 10.57
1991 10.60
1992 10.63
1993 10.66
1994 10.67
1995 10.66
1996 10.72
1997 10.78
1998 10.83
1999 10.91
2000 10.99
2001 11.02
2002 11.05
2003 11.09
2004 11.12
2005 11.16
2006 11.21
2007 11.27
2008 11.33
2009 11.42
2010 11.55
2011 11.66
2012 11.79
2013 11.95
2014 12.12
2015 12.31
2016 12.54
2017 12.77
2018 13.03
2019 13.33
2020 13.67

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