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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Guyana was 53.21 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 104.89 in 1965 and 53.00 in 2019.

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 99.84
1961 101.69
1962 103.18
1963 104.27
1964 104.87
1965 104.89
1966 104.62
1967 104.21
1968 103.72
1969 103.11
1970 102.36
1971 99.81
1972 97.43
1973 95.42
1974 93.86
1975 92.62
1976 91.17
1977 89.97
1978 88.79
1979 87.40
1980 85.67
1981 83.40
1982 81.45
1983 79.92
1984 78.51
1985 76.82
1986 74.56
1987 71.99
1988 69.58
1989 67.85
1990 66.91
1991 66.31
1992 66.17
1993 66.36
1994 66.55
1995 66.55
1996 66.05
1997 65.45
1998 65.05
1999 65.19
2000 65.93
2001 66.57
2002 67.60
2003 68.68
2004 69.31
2005 69.24
2006 67.22
2007 64.88
2008 62.42
2009 60.17
2010 58.31
2011 57.05
2012 56.04
2013 55.25
2014 54.59
2015 54.02
2016 53.69
2017 53.33
2018 53.06
2019 53.00
2020 53.21

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