Equatorial Guinea - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Equatorial Guinea was 64.37 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 89.31 in 1990 and 64.37 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 76.17
1961 77.08
1962 78.10
1963 79.04
1964 79.57
1965 79.63
1966 80.20
1967 80.36
1968 80.12
1969 79.42
1970 78.04
1971 78.75
1972 78.70
1973 78.04
1974 77.25
1975 76.76
1976 76.26
1977 76.14
1978 76.37
1979 76.88
1980 77.93
1981 79.01
1982 79.90
1983 80.83
1984 81.77
1985 82.48
1986 84.70
1987 86.31
1988 87.46
1989 88.42
1990 89.31
1991 89.18
1992 89.22
1993 89.17
1994 88.70
1995 87.72
1996 86.23
1997 84.36
1998 82.47
1999 80.82
2000 79.48
2001 78.36
2002 77.22
2003 76.27
2004 75.55
2005 74.97
2006 73.98
2007 72.99
2008 72.13
2009 71.38
2010 70.62
2011 69.98
2012 69.12
2013 68.29
2014 67.55
2015 66.84
2016 66.55
2017 66.03
2018 65.49
2019 64.97
2020 64.37

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