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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Guinea was 79.72 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 93.98 in 2003 and a minimum value of 71.95 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 71.95
1961 72.86
1962 73.87
1963 74.80
1964 75.31
1965 75.25
1966 75.81
1967 75.77
1968 75.29
1969 74.65
1970 74.00
1971 74.60
1972 75.04
1973 75.37
1974 75.60
1975 75.74
1976 77.01
1977 78.14
1978 79.16
1979 80.11
1980 80.99
1981 82.13
1982 83.06
1983 83.85
1984 84.54
1985 85.16
1986 85.99
1987 86.59
1988 87.00
1989 87.24
1990 87.31
1991 88.52
1992 89.45
1993 90.12
1994 90.57
1995 90.83
1996 91.71
1997 92.32
1998 92.67
1999 92.77
2000 92.61
2001 93.37
2002 93.83
2003 93.98
2004 93.90
2005 93.63
2006 93.35
2007 92.93
2008 92.39
2009 91.72
2010 90.93
2011 90.19
2012 89.33
2013 88.39
2014 87.41
2015 86.46
2016 85.09
2017 83.73
2018 82.39
2019 81.05
2020 79.72

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