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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Guinea-Bissau was 75.97 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 92.68 in 1991 and a minimum value of 71.13 in 1960.

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 71.13
1961 71.55
1962 72.22
1963 72.88
1964 73.16
1965 72.92
1966 73.26
1967 73.00
1968 72.40
1969 71.80
1970 71.38
1971 71.80
1972 72.23
1973 72.69
1974 73.10
1975 73.43
1976 75.25
1977 77.00
1978 78.76
1979 80.67
1980 82.78
1981 84.47
1982 86.18
1983 87.81
1984 89.16
1985 90.11
1986 91.58
1987 92.35
1988 92.62
1989 92.64
1990 92.56
1991 92.68
1992 92.67
1993 92.45
1994 91.86
1995 90.88
1996 90.88
1997 90.41
1998 89.63
1999 88.76
2000 87.91
2001 87.00
2002 86.03
2003 85.01
2004 83.94
2005 82.87
2006 82.26
2007 81.60
2008 80.92
2009 80.28
2010 79.68
2011 79.47
2012 79.18
2013 78.84
2014 78.48
2015 78.09
2016 77.90
2017 77.61
2018 77.21
2019 76.67
2020 75.97

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