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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Tunisia was 49.62 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 99.56 in 1966 and 44.44 in 2011.

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 89.37
1961 89.73
1962 90.90
1963 93.03
1964 95.72
1965 98.29
1966 99.56
1967 99.36
1968 98.26
1969 97.01
1970 96.00
1971 94.50
1972 93.28
1973 92.23
1974 91.12
1975 89.86
1976 88.71
1977 87.54
1978 86.35
1979 85.16
1980 83.99
1981 82.73
1982 81.36
1983 79.98
1984 78.72
1985 77.62
1986 76.55
1987 75.62
1988 74.77
1989 73.81
1990 72.66
1991 71.46
1992 69.96
1993 68.27
1994 66.55
1995 64.90
1996 63.25
1997 61.74
1998 60.25
1999 58.65
2000 56.94
2001 55.32
2002 53.62
2003 51.93
2004 50.37
2005 48.99
2006 47.73
2007 46.64
2008 45.73
2009 45.03
2010 44.55
2011 44.44
2012 44.56
2013 44.89
2014 45.34
2015 45.89
2016 46.69
2017 47.41
2018 48.12
2019 48.85
2020 49.62

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