The Bahamas - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in The Bahamas was 30.57 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 81.25 in 1965 and a minimum value of 30.57 in 2020.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, young, is the ratio of younger dependents--people younger than 15--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 78.76
1961 78.76
1962 79.09
1963 79.76
1964 80.57
1965 81.25
1966 80.43
1967 79.39
1968 78.40
1969 77.74
1970 77.44
1971 75.20
1972 74.18
1973 73.79
1974 73.24
1975 72.16
1976 71.00
1977 68.86
1978 66.32
1979 64.18
1980 62.76
1981 60.66
1982 59.67
1983 59.25
1984 58.63
1985 57.51
1986 56.85
1987 55.40
1988 53.60
1989 52.12
1990 51.25
1991 50.18
1992 49.89
1993 49.97
1994 49.79
1995 49.05
1996 48.77
1997 47.88
1998 46.66
1999 45.57
2000 44.87
2001 44.08
2002 43.55
2003 43.19
2004 42.85
2005 42.52
2006 41.98
2007 41.65
2008 41.31
2009 40.81
2010 40.12
2011 39.21
2012 38.09
2013 36.85
2014 35.65
2015 34.61
2016 33.47
2017 32.65
2018 32.00
2019 31.34
2020 30.57

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