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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Angola was 94.50 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 100.95 in 1993 and 82.28 in 1960.

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 82.28
1961 84.62
1962 87.13
1963 89.26
1964 90.44
1965 90.57
1966 90.75
1967 90.14
1968 89.70
1969 90.27
1970 92.01
1971 92.47
1972 93.65
1973 94.99
1974 95.69
1975 95.49
1976 96.61
1977 96.31
1978 95.35
1979 94.73
1980 94.83
1981 95.48
1982 96.77
1983 98.29
1984 99.40
1985 99.81
1986 100.70
1987 100.93
1988 100.73
1989 100.41
1990 100.12
1991 100.60
1992 100.87
1993 100.95
1994 100.82
1995 100.49
1996 100.63
1997 100.51
1998 100.18
1999 99.68
2000 99.07
2001 99.04
2002 98.82
2003 98.48
2004 98.07
2005 97.67
2006 97.83
2007 97.87
2008 97.84
2009 97.77
2010 97.64
2011 97.99
2012 98.15
2013 98.13
2014 97.94
2015 97.57
2016 97.29
2017 96.82
2018 96.18
2019 95.39
2020 94.50

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