Barbados - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Barbados was 25.19 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 72.66 in 1965 and a minimum value of 25.19 in 2020.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, young, is the ratio of younger dependents--people younger than 15--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 69.14
1961 70.38
1962 71.25
1963 71.85
1964 72.32
1965 72.66
1966 72.29
1967 71.56
1968 70.53
1969 69.32
1970 67.95
1971 64.56
1972 61.73
1973 59.18
1974 56.55
1975 53.81
1976 52.76
1977 51.37
1978 50.21
1979 49.73
1980 49.88
1981 47.82
1982 46.43
1983 45.35
1984 44.13
1985 42.67
1986 41.60
1987 40.21
1988 38.73
1989 37.48
1990 36.58
1991 35.74
1992 35.24
1993 34.97
1994 34.71
1995 34.39
1996 34.11
1997 33.77
1998 33.43
1999 33.16
2000 32.98
2001 32.31
2002 31.82
2003 31.43
2004 31.07
2005 30.70
2006 30.41
2007 30.10
2008 29.82
2009 29.61
2010 29.46
2011 29.02
2012 28.61
2013 28.19
2014 27.74
2015 27.27
2016 26.79
2017 26.35
2018 25.94
2019 25.56
2020 25.19

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

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population