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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Channel Islands was 26.70 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 26.70 in 2020 and a minimum value of 20.16 in 1960.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, old, is the ratio of older dependents--people 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.

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Year Value
1960 20.16
1961 20.28
1962 20.39
1963 20.53
1964 20.71
1965 20.93
1966 21.03
1967 21.12
1968 21.23
1969 21.41
1970 21.61
1971 21.81
1972 21.92
1973 21.97
1974 21.98
1975 21.98
1976 22.28
1977 22.50
1978 22.61
1979 22.60
1980 22.49
1981 22.41
1982 22.24
1983 22.02
1984 21.80
1985 21.61
1986 21.53
1987 21.43
1988 21.33
1989 21.21
1990 21.07
1991 21.16
1992 21.20
1993 21.21
1994 21.19
1995 21.12
1996 21.18
1997 21.20
1998 21.19
1999 21.19
2000 21.22
2001 21.43
2002 21.59
2003 21.67
2004 21.71
2005 21.79
2006 22.06
2007 22.25
2008 22.31
2009 22.27
2010 22.27
2011 22.72
2012 23.19
2013 23.62
2014 23.95
2015 24.21
2016 24.65
2017 25.12
2018 25.62
2019 26.14
2020 26.70

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