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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Grenada was 50.53 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 121.03 in 1968 and 48.87 in 2015.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 117.55
1961 119.40
1962 120.17
1963 120.21
1964 120.27
1965 120.55
1966 120.72
1967 120.93
1968 121.03
1969 120.79
1970 120.03
1971 112.73
1972 107.14
1973 102.87
1974 99.12
1975 95.38
1976 93.95
1977 91.82
1978 89.63
1979 88.58
1980 89.16
1981 86.05
1982 84.06
1983 82.80
1984 81.52
1985 79.77
1986 80.94
1987 82.09
1988 83.37
1989 85.29
1990 88.19
1991 87.45
1992 87.01
1993 86.56
1994 85.73
1995 84.34
1996 82.08
1997 79.83
1998 77.49
1999 74.93
2000 72.20
2001 69.07
2002 65.92
2003 63.04
2004 60.61
2005 58.59
2006 56.81
2007 55.24
2008 53.75
2009 52.29
2010 50.97
2011 50.50
2012 49.83
2013 49.22
2014 48.89
2015 48.87
2016 48.89
2017 49.18
2018 49.66
2019 50.14
2020 50.53

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