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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Comoros was 72.79 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 96.50 in 1989 and 72.79 in 2020.

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.

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Year Value
1960 80.22
1961 82.04
1962 83.88
1963 85.63
1964 87.07
1965 88.09
1966 89.42
1967 90.26
1968 90.73
1969 90.92
1970 90.92
1971 91.40
1972 91.58
1973 91.54
1974 91.42
1975 91.39
1976 91.74
1977 91.97
1978 92.15
1979 92.29
1980 92.33
1981 93.02
1982 93.65
1983 94.19
1984 94.60
1985 94.89
1986 95.67
1987 96.16
1988 96.41
1989 96.50
1990 96.43
1991 96.49
1992 96.31
1993 95.90
1994 95.26
1995 94.38
1996 93.54
1997 92.54
1998 91.39
1999 90.10
2000 88.72
2001 87.63
2002 86.41
2003 85.15
2004 83.90
2005 82.71
2006 81.85
2007 81.00
2008 80.18
2009 79.36
2010 78.55
2011 77.99
2012 77.40
2013 76.79
2014 76.17
2015 75.55
2016 75.13
2017 74.63
2018 74.05
2019 73.43
2020 72.79

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