Antigua and Barbuda - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Antigua and Barbuda was 45.31 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 94.51 in 1970 and 44.36 in 2015.

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 89.46
1961 89.84
1962 90.28
1963 90.84
1964 91.47
1965 92.13
1966 92.32
1967 92.73
1968 93.37
1969 94.10
1970 94.51
1971 91.69
1972 89.29
1973 87.45
1974 86.12
1975 85.17
1976 82.73
1977 80.56
1978 78.88
1979 77.69
1980 76.85
1981 74.78
1982 72.93
1983 71.43
1984 70.32
1985 69.47
1986 67.74
1987 66.12
1988 64.83
1989 63.86
1990 63.26
1991 62.22
1992 61.19
1993 60.29
1994 59.61
1995 59.02
1996 57.91
1997 56.89
1998 56.02
1999 55.25
2000 54.49
2001 53.50
2002 52.63
2003 51.84
2004 51.09
2005 50.35
2006 49.62
2007 48.84
2008 48.03
2009 47.21
2010 46.41
2011 46.01
2012 45.52
2013 45.02
2014 44.62
2015 44.36
2016 44.44
2017 44.52
2018 44.68
2019 44.95
2020 45.31

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