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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Cabo Verde was 41.83 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 103.76 in 1976 and a minimum value of 41.83 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 79.78
1961 82.65
1962 87.32
1963 92.73
1964 97.01
1965 99.28
1966 102.33
1967 103.19
1968 102.80
1969 102.40
1970 102.29
1971 101.94
1972 102.48
1973 103.31
1974 103.67
1975 103.28
1976 103.76
1977 103.21
1978 101.90
1979 100.39
1980 99.11
1981 96.24
1982 93.93
1983 92.17
1984 90.89
1985 90.00
1986 90.28
1987 90.76
1988 91.34
1989 92.01
1990 92.82
1991 93.00
1992 93.13
1993 93.10
1994 92.66
1995 91.69
1996 90.79
1997 89.25
1998 87.24
1999 84.98
2000 82.59
2001 79.21
2002 76.09
2003 73.02
2004 69.80
2005 66.40
2006 63.25
2007 60.02
2008 56.88
2009 54.10
2010 51.82
2011 49.90
2012 48.47
2013 47.41
2014 46.52
2015 45.68
2016 44.86
2017 44.03
2018 43.20
2019 42.46
2020 41.83

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

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population