Cabo Verde - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Cabo Verde was 48.96 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 114.47 in 1976 and 48.96 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 89.36
1961 92.16
1962 96.83
1963 102.24
1964 106.44
1965 108.48
1966 111.45
1967 112.11
1968 111.48
1969 110.91
1970 110.75
1971 110.78
1972 111.80
1973 113.13
1974 113.89
1975 113.76
1976 114.47
1977 113.99
1978 112.61
1979 110.97
1980 109.49
1981 106.37
1982 103.81
1983 101.82
1984 100.29
1985 99.14
1986 99.24
1987 99.52
1988 99.92
1989 100.51
1990 101.35
1991 101.54
1992 101.77
1993 101.87
1994 101.57
1995 100.69
1996 99.94
1997 98.54
1998 96.63
1999 94.49
2000 92.22
2001 88.97
2002 85.98
2003 83.03
2004 79.84
2005 76.40
2006 73.02
2007 69.50
2008 66.05
2009 62.96
2010 60.36
2011 58.03
2012 56.19
2013 54.75
2014 53.58
2015 52.56
2016 51.68
2017 50.87
2018 50.12
2019 49.49
2020 48.96

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