Puerto Rico - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Puerto Rico was 57.68 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 91.95 in 1960 and 50.92 in 2010.

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 91.95
1961 88.42
1962 85.39
1963 83.02
1964 81.15
1965 79.45
1966 79.39
1967 78.65
1968 77.61
1969 76.63
1970 75.90
1971 73.82
1972 71.79
1973 69.96
1974 68.35
1975 66.88
1976 66.49
1977 66.30
1978 66.10
1979 65.82
1980 65.50
1981 65.05
1982 64.57
1983 63.97
1984 63.23
1985 62.37
1986 61.56
1987 60.76
1988 59.99
1989 59.30
1990 58.71
1991 58.00
1992 57.37
1993 56.80
1994 56.26
1995 55.71
1996 55.40
1997 54.98
1998 54.49
1999 54.02
2000 53.65
2001 53.43
2002 53.25
2003 53.08
2004 52.85
2005 52.58
2006 52.39
2007 52.16
2008 51.84
2009 51.41
2010 50.92
2011 51.25
2012 51.68
2013 52.17
2014 52.64
2015 52.97
2016 53.57
2017 54.26
2018 55.07
2019 56.15
2020 57.68

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