Dem. Rep. Congo - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Dem. Rep. Congo was 89.47 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 91.69 in 2014 and a minimum value of 80.68 in 1965.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, young, is the ratio of younger dependents--people younger than 15--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 80.75
1961 81.15
1962 81.20
1963 81.03
1964 80.83
1965 80.68
1966 81.30
1967 81.79
1968 82.16
1969 82.38
1970 82.43
1971 83.16
1972 83.61
1973 83.85
1974 83.94
1975 83.93
1976 84.52
1977 84.88
1978 85.06
1979 85.08
1980 84.94
1981 85.47
1982 85.79
1983 85.93
1984 85.95
1985 85.90
1986 86.41
1987 86.66
1988 86.75
1989 86.79
1990 86.88
1991 87.40
1992 87.81
1993 88.12
1994 88.24
1995 88.06
1996 88.55
1997 88.75
1998 88.72
1999 88.57
2000 88.42
2001 88.77
2002 89.01
2003 89.18
2004 89.28
2005 89.32
2006 89.85
2007 90.20
2008 90.42
2009 90.59
2010 90.71
2011 91.19
2012 91.51
2013 91.68
2014 91.69
2015 91.52
2016 91.53
2017 91.29
2018 90.85
2019 90.23
2020 89.47

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