St. Lucia - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in St. Lucia was 39.37 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 120.52 in 1970 and 39.37 in 2019.

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 95.39
1961 97.95
1962 100.28
1963 102.32
1964 104.38
1965 106.69
1966 108.42
1967 110.68
1968 113.62
1969 117.08
1970 120.52
1971 117.61
1972 114.81
1973 111.95
1974 109.03
1975 106.22
1976 104.04
1977 101.94
1978 99.83
1979 97.69
1980 95.58
1981 92.53
1982 89.96
1983 87.91
1984 86.44
1985 85.51
1986 82.65
1987 80.71
1988 79.46
1989 78.75
1990 78.45
1991 77.16
1992 76.24
1993 75.54
1994 74.90
1995 74.24
1996 73.06
1997 71.63
1998 69.95
1999 68.06
2000 65.98
2001 63.74
2002 61.30
2003 58.74
2004 56.16
2005 53.70
2006 51.77
2007 50.15
2008 48.73
2009 47.50
2010 46.47
2011 45.04
2012 43.79
2013 42.68
2014 41.70
2015 40.84
2016 40.34
2017 39.89
2018 39.54
2019 39.37
2020 39.37

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