Colombia - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Colombia was 45.44 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 101.58 in 1964 and 45.44 in 2020.

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 98.47
1961 99.49
1962 100.43
1963 101.18
1964 101.58
1965 101.54
1966 101.42
1967 100.81
1968 99.82
1969 98.56
1970 97.06
1971 95.57
1972 93.82
1973 91.83
1974 89.69
1975 87.50
1976 85.06
1977 82.90
1978 80.93
1979 79.04
1980 77.19
1981 75.90
1982 74.42
1983 72.92
1984 71.61
1985 70.56
1986 69.66
1987 68.96
1988 68.40
1989 67.84
1990 67.23
1991 66.67
1992 66.13
1993 65.58
1994 64.98
1995 64.30
1996 63.76
1997 63.03
1998 62.22
1999 61.43
2000 60.71
2001 59.84
2002 59.10
2003 58.40
2004 57.59
2005 56.63
2006 55.66
2007 54.53
2008 53.32
2009 52.18
2010 51.18
2011 50.18
2012 49.37
2013 48.68
2014 48.08
2015 47.55
2016 47.02
2017 46.53
2018 46.10
2019 45.74
2020 45.44

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