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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Guam was 52.43 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 71.40 in 1960 and 51.14 in 1990.

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 71.40
1961 71.32
1962 70.60
1963 69.98
1964 69.71
1965 69.57
1966 69.28
1967 68.72
1968 68.52
1969 68.67
1970 68.80
1971 67.27
1972 65.79
1973 64.76
1974 64.24
1975 63.98
1976 62.90
1977 61.78
1978 60.78
1979 59.98
1980 59.40
1981 58.13
1982 57.08
1983 56.27
1984 55.64
1985 55.12
1986 54.20
1987 53.27
1988 52.42
1989 51.68
1990 51.14
1991 51.87
1992 52.73
1993 53.68
1994 54.56
1995 55.21
1996 55.85
1997 56.18
1998 56.22
1999 56.08
2000 55.86
2001 56.10
2002 56.28
2003 56.38
2004 56.32
2005 56.05
2006 55.68
2007 55.08
2008 54.39
2009 53.77
2010 53.30
2011 52.90
2012 52.69
2013 52.59
2014 52.52
2015 52.44
2016 52.41
2017 52.31
2018 52.24
2019 52.26
2020 52.43

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