Central African Republic - Age dependency ratio

Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Central African Republic was 86.36 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 92.44 in 2015 and 75.50 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 75.50
1961 76.74
1962 77.82
1963 78.73
1964 79.39
1965 79.79
1966 80.91
1967 81.65
1968 82.07
1969 82.25
1970 82.23
1971 83.67
1972 84.79
1973 85.65
1974 86.30
1975 86.80
1976 87.26
1977 87.46
1978 87.47
1979 87.39
1980 87.29
1981 87.27
1982 87.21
1983 87.11
1984 86.90
1985 86.54
1986 87.94
1987 89.06
1988 89.94
1989 90.68
1990 91.33
1991 91.35
1992 91.14
1993 90.75
1994 90.19
1995 89.47
1996 89.51
1997 89.39
1998 89.10
1999 88.63
2000 87.99
2001 88.41
2002 88.54
2003 88.45
2004 88.23
2005 87.92
2006 88.54
2007 89.02
2008 89.30
2009 89.31
2010 88.97
2011 90.23
2012 91.21
2013 91.87
2014 92.27
2015 92.44
2016 91.53
2017 90.40
2018 89.11
2019 87.74
2020 86.36

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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Central African Republic was 5.21 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 8.88 in 1963 and a minimum value of 5.21 in 2020.

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 8.77
1961 8.82
1962 8.86
1963 8.88
1964 8.85
1965 8.79
1966 8.82
1967 8.80
1968 8.74
1969 8.66
1970 8.55
1971 8.62
1972 8.66
1973 8.66
1974 8.64
1975 8.58
1976 8.57
1977 8.52
1978 8.45
1979 8.35
1980 8.23
1981 8.15
1982 8.04
1983 7.91
1984 7.77
1985 7.63
1986 7.66
1987 7.67
1988 7.65
1989 7.62
1990 7.56
1991 7.52
1992 7.45
1993 7.36
1994 7.25
1995 7.11
1996 7.08
1997 7.01
1998 6.91
1999 6.78
2000 6.64
2001 6.60
2002 6.54
2003 6.44
2004 6.32
2005 6.18
2006 6.14
2007 6.08
2008 5.99
2009 5.87
2010 5.72
2011 5.72
2012 5.70
2013 5.64
2014 5.55
2015 5.45
2016 5.43
2017 5.39
2018 5.34
2019 5.28
2020 5.21

Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Central African Republic was 81.14 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 86.99 in 2015 and a minimum value of 66.73 in 1960.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, young, is the ratio of younger dependents--people younger than 15--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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 66.73
1961 67.91
1962 68.96
1963 69.85
1964 70.54
1965 71.00
1966 72.09
1967 72.85
1968 73.33
1969 73.59
1970 73.68
1971 75.04
1972 76.13
1973 76.98
1974 77.66
1975 78.22
1976 78.70
1977 78.94
1978 79.02
1979 79.04
1980 79.06
1981 79.13
1982 79.18
1983 79.20
1984 79.13
1985 78.91
1986 80.28
1987 81.39
1988 82.29
1989 83.06
1990 83.76
1991 83.83
1992 83.69
1993 83.39
1994 82.94
1995 82.35
1996 82.43
1997 82.38
1998 82.19
1999 81.85
2000 81.35
2001 81.81
2002 82.00
2003 82.00
2004 81.91
2005 81.75
2006 82.40
2007 82.93
2008 83.31
2009 83.44
2010 83.25
2011 84.51
2012 85.51
2013 86.24
2014 86.71
2015 86.99
2016 86.10
2017 85.00
2018 83.76
2019 82.46
2020 81.14

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population