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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Curaçao was 55.87 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 85.79 in 1961 and 50.42 in 2008.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 85.50
1961 85.79
1962 85.42
1963 84.74
1964 84.13
1965 83.64
1966 82.93
1967 82.80
1968 82.87
1969 82.57
1970 81.58
1971 80.73
1972 79.01
1973 76.74
1974 74.49
1975 72.49
1976 69.19
1977 66.23
1978 63.53
1979 61.05
1980 58.87
1981 56.94
1982 55.47
1983 54.23
1984 53.10
1985 52.08
1986 51.87
1987 51.97
1988 52.27
1989 52.73
1990 53.27
1991 53.57
1992 53.92
1993 54.25
1994 54.54
1995 54.79
1996 54.71
1997 54.65
1998 54.49
1999 54.33
2000 54.31
2001 52.88
2002 52.03
2003 51.47
2004 50.98
2005 50.58
2006 50.67
2007 50.56
2008 50.42
2009 50.53
2010 50.95
2011 51.02
2012 51.59
2013 52.44
2014 53.31
2015 54.06
2016 54.67
2017 55.02
2018 55.20
2019 55.43
2020 55.87

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