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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Djibouti was 50.64 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 99.63 in 1977 and 50.64 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 84.07
1961 84.55
1962 84.20
1963 83.62
1964 83.51
1965 84.03
1966 85.53
1967 87.13
1968 88.79
1969 90.32
1970 91.62
1971 93.19
1972 94.34
1973 95.25
1974 96.24
1975 97.56
1976 98.99
1977 99.63
1978 99.39
1979 98.00
1980 95.39
1981 95.12
1982 93.90
1983 92.21
1984 90.97
1985 90.87
1986 90.26
1987 90.80
1988 91.78
1989 92.01
1990 90.83
1991 91.17
1992 90.11
1993 88.15
1994 86.28
1995 85.07
1996 83.33
1997 82.26
1998 81.48
1999 80.32
2000 78.52
2001 77.44
2002 75.81
2003 73.86
2004 71.89
2005 70.00
2006 67.05
2007 64.25
2008 61.63
2009 59.24
2010 57.20
2011 56.22
2012 55.47
2013 54.89
2014 54.28
2015 53.55
2016 53.19
2017 52.53
2018 51.75
2019 51.09
2020 50.64

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