Solomon Islands - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Solomon Islands was 77.62 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 103.08 in 1976 and 77.62 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 82.76
1961 83.67
1962 84.86
1963 86.23
1964 87.45
1965 88.32
1966 88.57
1967 88.46
1968 88.10
1969 87.80
1970 87.82
1971 90.28
1972 93.28
1973 96.59
1974 99.80
1975 102.54
1976 103.08
1977 102.97
1978 102.55
1979 102.24
1980 102.19
1981 102.46
1982 102.81
1983 103.01
1984 102.77
1985 101.93
1986 100.79
1987 99.29
1988 97.46
1989 95.40
1990 93.24
1991 91.75
1992 90.04
1993 88.28
1994 86.65
1995 85.22
1996 84.32
1997 83.48
1998 82.70
1999 81.91
2000 81.08
2001 80.77
2002 80.51
2003 80.29
2004 80.02
2005 79.64
2006 79.43
2007 79.17
2008 78.93
2009 78.82
2010 78.86
2011 78.65
2012 78.58
2013 78.59
2014 78.56
2015 78.42
2016 78.49
2017 78.34
2018 78.06
2019 77.82
2020 77.62

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