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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Kiribati was 67.03 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 99.49 in 1964 and 62.75 in 2015.

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 95.95
1961 97.81
1962 98.98
1963 99.48
1964 99.49
1965 99.17
1966 98.95
1967 98.21
1968 96.98
1969 95.36
1970 93.34
1971 91.09
1972 88.72
1973 86.29
1974 83.87
1975 81.59
1976 79.52
1977 77.96
1978 76.76
1979 75.69
1980 74.65
1981 75.23
1982 75.15
1983 74.72
1984 74.51
1985 74.91
1986 74.65
1987 75.22
1988 76.29
1989 77.19
1990 77.66
1991 79.09
1992 80.01
1993 80.41
1994 80.49
1995 80.45
1996 80.08
1997 79.68
1998 79.04
1999 77.90
2000 76.29
2001 75.38
2002 73.44
2003 71.05
2004 69.07
2005 67.96
2006 66.02
2007 65.79
2008 66.32
2009 66.45
2010 65.75
2011 65.94
2012 65.06
2013 63.73
2014 62.85
2015 62.75
2016 62.88
2017 63.86
2018 65.27
2019 66.45
2020 67.03

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