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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Botswana was 61.07 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 107.85 in 1980 and 61.07 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 92.06
1961 93.99
1962 96.52
1963 99.25
1964 101.51
1965 102.97
1966 104.66
1967 105.69
1968 106.21
1969 106.55
1970 106.90
1971 107.10
1972 107.04
1973 106.83
1974 106.54
1975 106.26
1976 106.29
1977 106.51
1978 106.92
1979 107.42
1980 107.85
1981 107.51
1982 106.95
1983 106.16
1984 105.14
1985 103.94
1986 102.35
1987 100.38
1988 98.11
1989 95.69
1990 93.24
1991 91.37
1992 89.55
1993 87.68
1994 85.57
1995 83.18
1996 81.21
1997 78.93
1998 76.51
1999 74.21
2000 72.15
2001 70.51
2002 69.14
2003 67.96
2004 66.84
2005 65.75
2006 64.97
2007 64.14
2008 63.32
2009 62.61
2010 62.04
2011 62.09
2012 62.33
2013 62.67
2014 63.00
2015 63.27
2016 63.06
2017 62.67
2018 62.17
2019 61.63
2020 61.07

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