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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Yemen was 71.71 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 117.88 in 1990 and 71.71 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 84.20
1961 85.04
1962 85.21
1963 84.99
1964 84.81
1965 84.86
1966 86.47
1967 88.25
1968 90.12
1969 91.92
1970 93.52
1971 96.45
1972 99.07
1973 101.46
1974 103.74
1975 105.96
1976 107.55
1977 108.76
1978 109.68
1979 110.40
1980 111.01
1981 112.00
1982 112.84
1983 113.56
1984 114.14
1985 114.59
1986 115.68
1987 116.43
1988 116.96
1989 117.43
1990 117.88
1991 117.47
1992 117.13
1993 116.67
1994 115.84
1995 114.50
1996 114.20
1997 113.04
1998 111.27
1999 109.23
2000 107.11
2001 104.62
2002 102.38
2003 100.17
2004 97.73
2005 95.02
2006 92.65
2007 90.00
2008 87.32
2009 84.92
2010 82.94
2011 81.41
2012 80.17
2013 79.11
2014 78.07
2015 76.95
2016 76.02
2017 74.99
2018 73.89
2019 72.79
2020 71.71

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