El Salvador - Age dependency ratio

Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in El Salvador was 54.42 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 97.15 in 1966 and 54.42 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 93.44
1961 94.36
1962 95.31
1963 96.14
1964 96.61
1965 96.63
1966 97.15
1967 97.11
1968 96.68
1969 96.10
1970 95.46
1971 94.95
1972 94.45
1973 93.93
1974 93.33
1975 92.60
1976 92.13
1977 91.61
1978 91.08
1979 90.52
1980 89.92
1981 89.27
1982 88.54
1983 87.78
1984 87.03
1985 86.28
1986 84.76
1987 83.37
1988 82.07
1989 80.82
1990 79.65
1991 78.22
1992 76.94
1993 75.86
1994 74.98
1995 74.28
1996 73.91
1997 73.57
1998 73.29
1999 73.04
2000 72.76
2001 72.35
2002 71.86
2003 71.27
2004 70.57
2005 69.75
2006 68.37
2007 67.10
2008 65.86
2009 64.56
2010 63.17
2011 61.78
2012 60.25
2013 58.76
2014 57.50
2015 56.56
2016 55.71
2017 55.16
2018 54.84
2019 54.63
2020 54.42

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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in El Salvador was 13.36 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 13.36 in 2020 and a minimum value of 6.29 in 1970.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, old, is the ratio of older dependents--people 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 6.46
1961 6.48
1962 6.48
1963 6.46
1964 6.43
1965 6.39
1966 6.40
1967 6.40
1968 6.37
1969 6.34
1970 6.29
1971 6.32
1972 6.33
1973 6.34
1974 6.33
1975 6.32
1976 6.39
1977 6.45
1978 6.51
1979 6.57
1980 6.63
1981 6.74
1982 6.84
1983 6.95
1984 7.06
1985 7.18
1986 7.30
1987 7.43
1988 7.55
1989 7.68
1990 7.80
1991 7.89
1992 7.98
1993 8.08
1994 8.20
1995 8.35
1996 8.54
1997 8.76
1998 8.98
1999 9.22
2000 9.46
2001 9.73
2002 10.00
2003 10.26
2004 10.50
2005 10.72
2006 10.93
2007 11.11
2008 11.27
2009 11.41
2010 11.54
2011 11.66
2012 11.76
2013 11.86
2014 11.98
2015 12.14
2016 12.34
2017 12.58
2018 12.83
2019 13.10
2020 13.36

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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in El Salvador was 41.06 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 90.74 in 1966 and a minimum value of 41.06 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 86.98
1961 87.89
1962 88.83
1963 89.68
1964 90.18
1965 90.24
1966 90.74
1967 90.71
1968 90.31
1969 89.76
1970 89.17
1971 88.63
1972 88.12
1973 87.60
1974 87.00
1975 86.27
1976 85.73
1977 85.16
1978 84.57
1979 83.96
1980 83.29
1981 82.53
1982 81.70
1983 80.83
1984 79.97
1985 79.10
1986 77.46
1987 75.94
1988 74.51
1989 73.15
1990 71.85
1991 70.32
1992 68.96
1993 67.78
1994 66.78
1995 65.94
1996 65.36
1997 64.82
1998 64.31
1999 63.82
2000 63.30
2001 62.62
2002 61.86
2003 61.01
2004 60.06
2005 59.03
2006 57.44
2007 55.99
2008 54.60
2009 53.15
2010 51.63
2011 50.12
2012 48.50
2013 46.90
2014 45.51
2015 44.42
2016 43.37
2017 42.58
2018 42.01
2019 41.53
2020 41.06

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population