Chad - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Chad was 96.04 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 108.20 in 2003 and 81.14 in 1960.

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 81.14
1961 82.32
1962 83.59
1963 84.76
1964 85.52
1965 85.73
1966 86.60
1967 86.89
1968 86.78
1969 86.57
1970 86.46
1971 87.20
1972 87.93
1973 88.65
1974 89.26
1975 89.68
1976 91.06
1977 92.13
1978 92.98
1979 93.74
1980 94.48
1981 95.86
1982 97.04
1983 98.04
1984 98.87
1985 99.55
1986 100.70
1987 101.55
1988 102.16
1989 102.60
1990 102.89
1991 103.81
1992 104.47
1993 104.91
1994 105.19
1995 105.35
1996 106.16
1997 106.68
1998 106.98
1999 107.12
2000 107.17
2001 107.76
2002 108.10
2003 108.20
2004 108.05
2005 107.65
2006 107.75
2007 107.53
2008 107.03
2009 106.31
2010 105.43
2011 104.94
2012 104.20
2013 103.29
2014 102.26
2015 101.13
2016 100.37
2017 99.47
2018 98.44
2019 97.29
2020 96.04

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