El Salvador - 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

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