Channel Islands - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Channel Islands was 49.01 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 55.29 in 1971 and 44.34 in 1990.

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 53.11
1961 53.44
1962 53.34
1963 53.36
1964 53.67
1965 54.18
1966 54.24
1967 54.08
1968 54.19
1969 54.65
1970 55.24
1971 55.29
1972 54.99
1973 54.43
1974 53.70
1975 52.83
1976 52.57
1977 52.14
1978 51.54
1979 50.77
1980 49.90
1981 49.05
1982 48.07
1983 47.12
1984 46.29
1985 45.64
1986 45.28
1987 44.94
1988 44.71
1989 44.53
1990 44.34
1991 44.75
1992 45.07
1993 45.36
1994 45.64
1995 45.86
1996 46.07
1997 46.19
1998 46.23
1999 46.20
2000 46.14
2001 46.07
2002 45.93
2003 45.74
2004 45.56
2005 45.47
2006 45.66
2007 45.68
2008 45.48
2009 45.12
2010 44.77
2011 45.44
2012 46.02
2013 46.49
2014 46.79
2015 46.99
2016 47.41
2017 47.76
2018 48.12
2019 48.52
2020 49.01

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