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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Djibouti was 43.55 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 94.93 in 1977 and a minimum value of 43.55 in 2020.

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 79.81
1961 80.29
1962 79.93
1963 79.34
1964 79.20
1965 79.67
1966 81.14
1967 82.70
1968 84.31
1969 85.78
1970 87.00
1971 88.54
1972 89.66
1973 90.52
1974 91.46
1975 92.72
1976 94.23
1977 94.93
1978 94.75
1979 93.39
1980 90.79
1981 90.48
1982 89.23
1983 87.49
1984 86.22
1985 86.07
1986 85.46
1987 85.98
1988 86.94
1989 87.13
1990 85.90
1991 86.15
1992 85.04
1993 83.04
1994 81.13
1995 79.88
1996 78.10
1997 76.99
1998 76.17
1999 74.98
2000 73.15
2001 72.00
2002 70.33
2003 68.33
2004 66.32
2005 64.39
2006 61.39
2007 58.54
2008 55.84
2009 53.36
2010 51.19
2011 50.08
2012 49.19
2013 48.47
2014 47.75
2015 46.92
2016 46.47
2017 45.73
2018 44.88
2019 44.13
2020 43.55

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