St. Vincent and the Grenadines - Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in St. Vincent and the Grenadines was 14.53 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 14.53 in 2020 and a minimum value of 8.76 in 1960.

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.

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Year Value
1960 8.76
1961 8.83
1962 8.94
1963 9.07
1964 9.23
1965 9.43
1966 9.63
1967 9.85
1968 10.09
1969 10.36
1970 10.68
1971 10.89
1972 11.09
1973 11.29
1974 11.45
1975 11.62
1976 11.72
1977 11.75
1978 11.73
1979 11.64
1980 11.51
1981 11.41
1982 11.26
1983 11.06
1984 10.83
1985 10.55
1986 10.56
1987 10.61
1988 10.71
1989 10.86
1990 11.06
1991 11.07
1992 11.10
1993 11.13
1994 11.16
1995 11.18
1996 11.13
1997 11.08
1998 11.03
1999 11.02
2000 11.07
2001 11.04
2002 11.07
2003 11.09
2004 11.07
2005 10.98
2006 11.27
2007 11.53
2008 11.79
2009 12.09
2010 12.48
2011 12.62
2012 12.83
2013 13.09
2014 13.41
2015 13.79
2016 13.87
2017 13.98
2018 14.13
2019 14.31
2020 14.53

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