Côte d'Ivoire - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Côte d'Ivoire was 79.83 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 92.82 in 1982 and 79.83 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 83.32
1961 84.53
1962 85.79
1963 86.97
1964 87.79
1965 88.12
1966 89.50
1967 90.24
1968 90.55
1969 90.69
1970 90.85
1971 91.05
1972 90.99
1973 90.77
1974 90.49
1975 90.21
1976 90.90
1977 91.38
1978 91.69
1979 91.83
1980 91.82
1981 92.55
1982 92.82
1983 92.79
1984 92.55
1985 92.18
1986 92.49
1987 92.60
1988 92.49
1989 92.11
1990 91.47
1991 91.20
1992 90.60
1993 89.79
1994 88.86
1995 87.91
1996 87.94
1997 87.84
1998 87.61
1999 87.26
2000 86.77
2001 87.50
2002 88.06
2003 88.45
2004 88.67
2005 88.71
2006 88.71
2007 88.48
2008 88.06
2009 87.50
2010 86.84
2011 86.16
2012 85.44
2013 84.68
2014 83.87
2015 83.02
2016 82.49
2017 81.84
2018 81.15
2019 80.47
2020 79.83

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