Sudan - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Sudan was 76.91 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 100.38 in 1978 and 76.91 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 93.16
1961 93.87
1962 94.37
1963 94.71
1964 94.93
1965 95.06
1966 95.80
1967 96.33
1968 96.70
1969 96.98
1970 97.19
1971 97.94
1972 98.50
1973 98.89
1974 99.17
1975 99.37
1976 99.91
1977 100.24
1978 100.38
1979 100.32
1980 100.07
1981 100.15
1982 99.94
1983 99.49
1984 98.84
1985 98.02
1986 97.51
1987 96.77
1988 95.86
1989 94.89
1990 93.95
1991 93.00
1992 92.13
1993 91.29
1994 90.40
1995 89.39
1996 89.39
1997 89.18
1998 88.82
1999 88.47
2000 88.19
2001 88.08
2002 87.99
2003 87.89
2004 87.65
2005 87.24
2006 87.28
2007 87.15
2008 86.88
2009 86.52
2010 86.08
2011 85.39
2012 84.57
2013 83.65
2014 82.67
2015 81.65
2016 80.76
2017 79.82
2018 78.86
2019 77.88
2020 76.91

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