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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Guinea-Bissau was 81.20 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 99.58 in 1988 and 77.38 in 1960.

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 77.38
1961 77.91
1962 78.67
1963 79.43
1964 79.75
1965 79.49
1966 79.87
1967 79.60
1968 78.96
1969 78.35
1970 77.94
1971 78.48
1972 79.05
1973 79.64
1974 80.17
1975 80.61
1976 82.62
1977 84.51
1978 86.33
1979 88.20
1980 90.18
1981 91.91
1982 93.63
1983 95.22
1984 96.49
1985 97.33
1986 98.75
1987 99.44
1988 99.58
1989 99.47
1990 99.22
1991 99.27
1992 99.18
1993 98.85
1994 98.12
1995 96.97
1996 96.93
1997 96.39
1998 95.52
1999 94.55
2000 93.56
2001 92.58
2002 91.52
2003 90.39
2004 89.23
2005 88.06
2006 87.42
2007 86.73
2008 86.03
2009 85.34
2010 84.68
2011 84.46
2012 84.12
2013 83.74
2014 83.36
2015 82.98
2016 82.87
2017 82.67
2018 82.36
2019 81.87
2020 81.20

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