Senegal - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Senegal was 78.44 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 94.93 in 1986 and a minimum value of 78.44 in 2020.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, young, is the ratio of younger dependents--people younger than 15--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 82.11
1961 83.17
1962 84.19
1963 85.05
1964 85.50
1965 85.44
1966 86.08
1967 86.06
1968 85.58
1969 84.89
1970 84.13
1971 84.71
1972 84.96
1973 84.98
1974 84.83
1975 84.54
1976 86.27
1977 87.69
1978 88.86
1979 89.88
1980 90.79
1981 92.05
1982 93.07
1983 93.83
1984 94.29
1985 94.42
1986 94.93
1987 94.92
1988 94.53
1989 93.97
1990 93.31
1991 92.88
1992 92.37
1993 91.74
1994 90.87
1995 89.70
1996 89.35
1997 88.69
1998 87.80
1999 86.82
2000 85.83
2001 85.20
2002 84.50
2003 83.78
2004 83.10
2005 82.48
2006 82.20
2007 82.01
2008 81.86
2009 81.72
2010 81.57
2011 81.67
2012 81.67
2013 81.60
2014 81.49
2015 81.31
2016 80.99
2017 80.53
2018 79.94
2019 79.24
2020 78.44

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

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population