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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Egypt was 64.62 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 86.32 in 1962 and 59.61 in 2010.

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 84.87
1961 86.22
1962 86.32
1963 85.65
1964 84.92
1965 84.45
1966 84.72
1967 85.09
1968 85.44
1969 85.49
1970 85.11
1971 85.37
1972 85.16
1973 84.61
1974 83.98
1975 83.41
1976 83.23
1977 83.13
1978 83.06
1979 82.92
1980 82.70
1981 82.80
1982 82.75
1983 82.65
1984 82.60
1985 82.62
1986 82.85
1987 83.09
1988 83.28
1989 83.29
1990 83.01
1991 82.94
1992 82.38
1993 81.46
1994 80.37
1995 79.24
1996 77.74
1997 76.40
1998 75.07
1999 73.53
2000 71.74
2001 70.19
2002 68.37
2003 66.47
2004 64.72
2005 63.24
2006 62.03
2007 61.03
2008 60.28
2009 59.79
2010 59.61
2011 59.76
2012 60.32
2013 61.11
2014 61.84
2015 62.38
2016 63.38
2017 63.84
2018 64.01
2019 64.23
2020 64.62

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