Central African Republic - 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

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