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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Ghana was 62.17 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 93.48 in 1978 and a minimum value of 62.17 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.

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Year Value
1960 82.43
1961 83.11
1962 83.18
1963 82.96
1964 82.88
1965 83.11
1966 84.81
1967 86.62
1968 88.40
1969 89.93
1970 91.09
1971 92.08
1972 92.67
1973 92.89
1974 92.78
1975 92.37
1976 93.09
1977 93.45
1978 93.48
1979 93.29
1980 92.98
1981 91.84
1982 90.62
1983 89.38
1984 88.15
1985 86.94
1986 86.30
1987 85.62
1988 84.91
1989 84.17
1990 83.42
1991 83.03
1992 82.46
1993 81.80
1994 81.10
1995 80.38
1996 79.96
1997 79.56
1998 79.10
1999 78.47
2000 77.65
2001 76.90
2002 75.90
2003 74.76
2004 73.63
2005 72.57
2006 71.55
2007 70.60
2008 69.70
2009 68.79
2010 67.88
2011 67.34
2012 66.77
2013 66.18
2014 65.57
2015 64.95
2016 64.50
2017 63.96
2018 63.36
2019 62.76
2020 62.17

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

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population