Fiji - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Fiji was 44.52 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 97.60 in 1960 and a minimum value of 43.82 in 2010.

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 97.60
1961 97.45
1962 96.65
1963 95.41
1964 93.90
1965 92.14
1966 90.42
1967 88.48
1968 86.29
1969 83.82
1970 81.11
1971 79.11
1972 76.91
1973 74.59
1974 72.26
1975 70.02
1976 69.52
1977 69.00
1978 68.47
1979 67.95
1980 67.52
1981 67.17
1982 66.89
1983 66.85
1984 67.02
1985 67.17
1986 67.02
1987 66.78
1988 66.44
1989 66.01
1990 65.57
1991 64.75
1992 63.95
1993 63.02
1994 61.87
1995 60.53
1996 60.09
1997 59.33
1998 58.45
1999 57.64
2000 56.91
2001 54.38
2002 52.24
2003 50.33
2004 48.48
2005 46.71
2006 46.42
2007 45.90
2008 45.20
2009 44.47
2010 43.82
2011 43.97
2012 44.21
2013 44.62
2014 45.18
2015 45.79
2016 45.68
2017 45.58
2018 45.38
2019 45.01
2020 44.52

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