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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Cameroon was 76.18 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 92.99 in 1992 and a minimum value of 71.01 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 71.01
1961 71.79
1962 72.52
1963 73.19
1964 73.75
1965 74.18
1966 75.26
1967 76.07
1968 76.71
1969 77.30
1970 77.88
1971 79.02
1972 80.03
1973 80.94
1974 81.74
1975 82.43
1976 83.53
1977 84.44
1978 85.21
1979 85.88
1980 86.50
1981 87.57
1982 88.51
1983 89.33
1984 90.00
1985 90.51
1986 91.43
1987 92.05
1988 92.43
1989 92.62
1990 92.62
1991 92.93
1992 92.99
1993 92.79
1994 92.31
1995 91.57
1996 91.09
1997 90.32
1998 89.35
1999 88.25
2000 87.12
2001 86.48
2002 85.80
2003 85.11
2004 84.39
2005 83.66
2006 83.40
2007 83.02
2008 82.58
2009 82.13
2010 81.72
2011 81.53
2012 81.28
2013 80.96
2014 80.52
2015 79.95
2016 79.45
2017 78.80
2018 78.02
2019 77.14
2020 76.18

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