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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Belize was 51.99 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 109.23 in 1975 and 51.99 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.

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Year Value
1960 97.73
1961 100.34
1962 102.15
1963 103.54
1964 104.66
1965 105.54
1966 105.99
1967 106.38
1968 106.55
1969 106.37
1970 105.80
1971 107.04
1972 108.04
1973 108.74
1974 109.14
1975 109.23
1976 108.99
1977 108.24
1978 106.94
1979 105.50
1980 104.26
1981 101.82
1982 100.13
1983 98.87
1984 97.55
1985 95.93
1986 95.34
1987 94.25
1988 92.95
1989 91.78
1990 90.80
1991 90.36
1992 90.22
1993 90.12
1994 89.83
1995 89.33
1996 87.27
1997 85.11
1998 83.23
1999 81.79
2000 80.67
2001 79.36
2002 78.07
2003 76.70
2004 75.19
2005 73.55
2006 71.90
2007 70.28
2008 68.71
2009 67.21
2010 65.81
2011 63.95
2012 62.27
2013 60.67
2014 59.09
2015 57.53
2016 56.33
2017 55.09
2018 53.88
2019 52.84
2020 51.99

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