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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Vanuatu was 72.47 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 95.26 in 1962 and 72.47 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 94.83
1961 95.17
1962 95.26
1963 95.19
1964 94.96
1965 94.49
1966 94.51
1967 94.37
1968 94.10
1969 93.72
1970 93.32
1971 93.14
1972 92.90
1973 92.65
1974 92.37
1975 91.97
1976 91.79
1977 91.44
1978 91.07
1979 90.75
1980 90.48
1981 90.10
1982 90.01
1983 90.15
1984 90.48
1985 90.89
1986 90.33
1987 89.96
1988 89.84
1989 89.95
1990 90.15
1991 89.16
1992 88.30
1993 87.54
1994 86.74
1995 85.83
1996 85.04
1997 84.06
1998 83.02
1999 82.03
2000 81.14
2001 79.91
2002 78.59
2003 77.32
2004 76.21
2005 75.27
2006 73.67
2007 72.90
2008 72.76
2009 72.82
2010 72.77
2011 73.27
2012 73.15
2013 73.16
2014 73.76
2015 74.82
2016 74.22
2017 74.02
2018 73.88
2019 73.39
2020 72.47

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