French Polynesia - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in French Polynesia was 45.54 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 95.01 in 1966 and 44.26 in 2016.

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 85.05
1961 85.59
1962 87.78
1963 90.85
1964 93.51
1965 94.98
1966 95.01
1967 94.62
1968 94.21
1969 94.04
1970 93.91
1971 92.52
1972 90.22
1973 87.60
1974 85.16
1975 83.06
1976 81.40
1977 80.13
1978 78.97
1979 77.54
1980 75.65
1981 74.02
1982 71.91
1983 69.43
1984 66.99
1985 64.94
1986 64.05
1987 63.56
1988 63.42
1989 63.35
1990 63.14
1991 63.10
1992 62.68
1993 62.03
1994 61.36
1995 60.73
1996 59.86
1997 59.24
1998 58.62
1999 57.73
2000 56.51
2001 55.22
2002 53.68
2003 52.10
2004 50.71
2005 49.61
2006 48.65
2007 48.01
2008 47.57
2009 47.16
2010 46.70
2011 46.25
2012 45.61
2013 44.96
2014 44.60
2015 44.65
2016 44.26
2017 44.50
2018 45.04
2019 45.44
2020 45.54

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