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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Ecuador was 53.81 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 97.06 in 1966 and 53.81 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 92.68
1961 93.55
1962 94.71
1963 95.89
1964 96.63
1965 96.75
1966 97.06
1967 96.78
1968 96.09
1969 95.25
1970 94.38
1971 93.95
1972 93.34
1973 92.59
1974 91.72
1975 90.74
1976 89.98
1977 89.08
1978 88.03
1979 86.86
1980 85.59
1981 84.46
1982 83.26
1983 82.00
1984 80.70
1985 79.38
1986 78.32
1987 77.20
1988 76.07
1989 74.96
1990 73.89
1991 73.02
1992 72.14
1993 71.27
1994 70.41
1995 69.58
1996 68.93
1997 68.31
1998 67.69
1999 67.02
2000 66.27
2001 65.69
2002 64.98
2003 64.19
2004 63.41
2005 62.68
2006 61.82
2007 61.05
2008 60.33
2009 59.59
2010 58.81
2011 58.06
2012 57.29
2013 56.55
2014 55.92
2015 55.43
2016 54.97
2017 54.59
2018 54.29
2019 54.03
2020 53.81

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