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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Haiti was 60.38 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 89.69 in 1990 and 60.38 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 76.99
1961 77.94
1962 79.12
1963 80.36
1964 81.30
1965 81.78
1966 82.68
1967 83.05
1968 83.01
1969 82.75
1970 82.36
1971 82.36
1972 82.16
1973 81.82
1974 81.41
1975 81.01
1976 80.99
1977 81.07
1978 81.22
1979 81.44
1980 81.74
1981 82.74
1982 83.74
1983 84.75
1984 85.70
1985 86.51
1986 87.79
1987 88.63
1988 89.14
1989 89.48
1990 89.69
1991 89.53
1992 89.40
1993 89.12
1994 88.44
1995 87.31
1996 86.23
1997 84.74
1998 83.03
1999 81.32
2000 79.74
2001 78.45
2002 77.21
2003 76.03
2004 74.87
2005 73.73
2006 72.74
2007 71.77
2008 70.81
2009 69.81
2010 68.77
2011 67.83
2012 66.85
2013 65.85
2014 64.88
2015 63.97
2016 63.22
2017 62.50
2018 61.79
2019 61.09
2020 60.38

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