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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Eswatini was 70.81 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 114.15 in 1984 and 70.81 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 95.28
1961 96.69
1962 97.85
1963 98.80
1964 99.57
1965 100.22
1966 100.59
1967 100.73
1968 100.74
1969 100.74
1970 100.80
1971 102.10
1972 103.41
1973 104.68
1974 105.82
1975 106.81
1976 108.23
1977 109.28
1978 110.10
1979 110.85
1980 111.64
1981 112.32
1982 113.17
1983 113.91
1984 114.15
1985 113.73
1986 112.94
1987 111.29
1988 109.15
1989 106.96
1990 104.85
1991 102.82
1992 101.25
1993 99.79
1994 97.96
1995 95.60
1996 94.08
1997 91.89
1998 89.34
1999 86.86
2000 84.64
2001 83.26
2002 82.37
2003 81.76
2004 81.20
2005 80.57
2006 79.94
2007 79.38
2008 78.89
2009 78.48
2010 78.11
2011 77.79
2012 77.22
2013 76.56
2014 76.00
2015 75.59
2016 74.32
2017 73.47
2018 72.79
2019 71.96
2020 70.81

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