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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Burundi was 86.41 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 107.40 in 1997 and a minimum value of 82.30 in 1960.

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 82.30
1961 83.37
1962 84.72
1963 86.09
1964 87.04
1965 87.42
1966 88.68
1967 89.22
1968 89.23
1969 88.92
1970 88.36
1971 89.05
1972 89.35
1973 89.28
1974 88.94
1975 88.52
1976 87.94
1977 87.29
1978 86.66
1979 86.10
1980 85.64
1981 86.76
1982 87.69
1983 88.62
1984 89.66
1985 90.82
1986 92.52
1987 94.11
1988 95.49
1989 96.51
1990 97.12
1991 100.16
1992 102.63
1993 104.55
1994 105.93
1995 106.70
1996 107.27
1997 107.40
1998 107.07
1999 106.42
2000 105.57
2001 102.79
2002 100.04
2003 97.39
2004 94.88
2005 92.58
2006 90.82
2007 89.14
2008 87.66
2009 86.49
2010 85.66
2011 85.73
2012 85.94
2013 86.26
2014 86.60
2015 86.90
2016 87.11
2017 87.17
2018 87.08
2019 86.83
2020 86.41

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