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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Eritrea was 79.42 as of 2011. Over the past 51 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 108.95 in 1995 and 73.71 in 2005.

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 85.89
1961 86.27
1962 85.95
1963 85.28
1964 84.73
1965 84.45
1966 85.18
1967 85.95
1968 86.67
1969 87.13
1970 87.26
1971 88.00
1972 88.28
1973 88.25
1974 88.09
1975 87.87
1976 88.21
1977 88.38
1978 88.43
1979 88.37
1980 88.23
1981 88.62
1982 88.84
1983 88.94
1984 88.95
1985 88.92
1986 89.98
1987 90.93
1988 91.70
1989 92.12
1990 92.06
1991 95.48
1992 98.94
1993 102.40
1994 105.80
1995 108.95
1996 107.47
1997 105.40
1998 102.94
1999 100.43
2000 98.18
2001 91.68
2002 86.11
2003 81.33
2004 77.20
2005 73.71
2006 74.01
2007 74.46
2008 75.08
2009 75.93
2010 76.94
2011 79.42

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