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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Côte d'Ivoire was 74.64 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 87.82 in 1982 and a minimum value of 74.64 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 78.30
1961 79.46
1962 80.67
1963 81.81
1964 82.60
1965 82.91
1966 84.25
1967 84.98
1968 85.28
1969 85.44
1970 85.61
1971 85.83
1972 85.80
1973 85.62
1974 85.38
1975 85.13
1976 85.83
1977 86.33
1978 86.66
1979 86.82
1980 86.82
1981 87.54
1982 87.82
1983 87.78
1984 87.55
1985 87.19
1986 87.46
1987 87.55
1988 87.42
1989 87.02
1990 86.37
1991 86.07
1992 85.46
1993 84.64
1994 83.71
1995 82.74
1996 82.73
1997 82.60
1998 82.35
1999 81.99
2000 81.49
2001 82.16
2002 82.67
2003 83.02
2004 83.23
2005 83.27
2006 83.25
2007 83.01
2008 82.61
2009 82.09
2010 81.50
2011 80.84
2012 80.16
2013 79.46
2014 78.70
2015 77.90
2016 77.34
2017 76.68
2018 75.97
2019 75.28
2020 74.64

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