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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Nicaragua was 54.27 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 107.45 in 1966 and 54.27 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.

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Year Value
1960 99.31
1961 101.01
1962 103.18
1963 105.38
1964 106.87
1965 107.31
1966 107.45
1967 106.81
1968 105.62
1969 104.24
1970 102.90
1971 102.12
1972 101.34
1973 100.60
1974 99.90
1975 99.25
1976 99.26
1977 99.16
1978 99.04
1979 98.96
1980 98.93
1981 99.25
1982 99.62
1983 99.95
1984 100.06
1985 99.87
1986 99.65
1987 99.05
1988 98.19
1989 97.22
1990 96.21
1991 94.63
1992 93.12
1993 91.57
1994 89.83
1995 87.84
1996 85.80
1997 83.54
1998 81.19
1999 78.92
2000 76.83
2001 74.65
2002 72.72
2003 70.97
2004 69.32
2005 67.75
2006 66.15
2007 64.67
2008 63.30
2009 62.04
2010 60.89
2011 59.74
2012 58.67
2013 57.72
2014 56.93
2015 56.32
2016 55.73
2017 55.28
2018 54.92
2019 54.59
2020 54.27

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