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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Rwanda was 74.20 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 109.85 in 1965 and 74.20 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 103.73
1961 106.37
1962 108.04
1963 108.95
1964 109.48
1965 109.85
1966 108.74
1967 107.43
1968 105.98
1969 104.34
1970 102.57
1971 101.97
1972 101.20
1973 100.37
1974 99.66
1975 99.13
1976 99.60
1977 100.05
1978 100.52
1979 101.01
1980 101.55
1981 103.00
1982 104.26
1983 105.35
1984 106.35
1985 107.33
1986 108.28
1987 109.11
1988 109.62
1989 109.06
1990 106.58
1991 103.98
1992 99.67
1993 93.63
1994 87.05
1995 81.79
1996 82.69
1997 84.44
1998 87.30
1999 90.36
2000 92.36
2001 90.87
2002 88.90
2003 86.48
2004 84.13
2005 82.26
2006 81.18
2007 80.46
2008 80.00
2009 79.54
2010 78.92
2011 78.59
2012 78.02
2013 77.34
2014 76.74
2015 76.31
2016 75.71
2017 75.40
2018 75.17
2019 74.81
2020 74.20

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