Central African Republic - 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.

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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

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