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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Guinea was 85.19 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 100.63 in 2003 and 78.08 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 78.08
1961 78.97
1962 79.93
1963 80.78
1964 81.16
1965 80.95
1966 81.55
1967 81.49
1968 80.97
1969 80.27
1970 79.52
1971 80.20
1972 80.70
1973 81.05
1974 81.28
1975 81.41
1976 82.82
1977 84.07
1978 85.19
1979 86.20
1980 87.12
1981 88.39
1982 89.43
1983 90.30
1984 91.04
1985 91.70
1986 92.64
1987 93.31
1988 93.78
1989 94.05
1990 94.14
1991 95.45
1992 96.45
1993 97.17
1994 97.65
1995 97.91
1996 98.80
1997 99.38
1998 99.68
1999 99.70
2000 99.45
2001 100.18
2002 100.57
2003 100.63
2004 100.43
2005 100.01
2006 99.70
2007 99.23
2008 98.61
2009 97.84
2010 96.92
2011 96.11
2012 95.14
2013 94.08
2014 93.01
2015 91.99
2016 90.60
2017 89.23
2018 87.89
2019 86.54
2020 85.19

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