Seychelles - Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Seychelles was 11.83 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 12.01 in 1970 and a minimum value of 10.24 in 2006.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, old, is the ratio of older dependents--people 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 11.25
1961 11.39
1962 11.55
1963 11.72
1964 11.83
1965 11.83
1966 11.92
1967 11.95
1968 11.97
1969 11.99
1970 12.01
1971 11.88
1972 11.75
1973 11.67
1974 11.62
1975 11.58
1976 11.63
1977 11.69
1978 11.75
1979 11.79
1980 11.83
1981 11.79
1982 11.70
1983 11.63
1984 11.58
1985 11.58
1986 11.60
1987 11.62
1988 11.63
1989 11.59
1990 11.53
1991 11.44
1992 11.38
1993 11.34
1994 11.31
1995 11.31
1996 11.44
1997 11.57
1998 11.70
1999 11.83
2000 11.95
2001 11.64
2002 11.30
2003 10.96
2004 10.62
2005 10.26
2006 10.24
2007 10.31
2008 10.46
2009 10.66
2010 10.88
2011 10.81
2012 10.66
2013 10.51
2014 10.42
2015 10.41
2016 10.54
2017 10.75
2018 11.04
2019 11.40
2020 11.83

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