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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Cuba was 23.31 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.31 in 2020 and a minimum value of 7.72 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 7.72
1961 7.84
1962 7.97
1963 8.13
1964 8.32
1965 8.56
1966 8.86
1967 9.18
1968 9.53
1969 9.88
1970 10.24
1971 10.63
1972 11.02
1973 11.40
1974 11.74
1975 12.03
1976 12.30
1977 12.50
1978 12.66
1979 12.78
1980 12.90
1981 13.02
1982 13.12
1983 13.22
1984 13.30
1985 13.38
1986 13.35
1987 13.30
1988 13.26
1989 13.24
1990 13.27
1991 13.32
1992 13.41
1993 13.52
1994 13.63
1995 13.72
1996 13.86
1997 13.98
1998 14.09
1999 14.22
2000 14.37
2001 14.56
2002 14.76
2003 14.97
2004 15.23
2005 15.54
2006 15.98
2007 16.45
2008 16.96
2009 17.47
2010 17.99
2011 18.43
2012 18.85
2013 19.28
2014 19.75
2015 20.28
2016 20.84
2017 21.47
2018 22.14
2019 22.76
2020 23.31

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