Dominican Republic - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Dominican Republic was 53.77 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 106.69 in 1964 and 53.77 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 103.13
1961 104.45
1962 105.53
1963 106.31
1964 106.69
1965 106.59
1966 106.31
1967 105.59
1968 104.52
1969 103.19
1970 101.67
1971 100.16
1972 98.48
1973 96.69
1974 94.84
1975 92.95
1976 91.18
1977 89.38
1978 87.61
1979 85.90
1980 84.28
1981 82.80
1982 81.42
1983 80.13
1984 78.93
1985 77.78
1986 76.70
1987 75.68
1988 74.71
1989 73.82
1990 73.01
1991 72.20
1992 71.50
1993 70.86
1994 70.21
1995 69.53
1996 68.89
1997 68.16
1998 67.38
1999 66.62
2000 65.89
2001 65.13
2002 64.45
2003 63.77
2004 63.02
2005 62.18
2006 61.28
2007 60.30
2008 59.28
2009 58.29
2010 57.39
2011 56.66
2012 56.03
2013 55.49
2014 55.04
2015 54.65
2016 54.38
2017 54.16
2018 53.99
2019 53.86
2020 53.77

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