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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Honduras was 47.47 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 97.52 in 1968 and a minimum value of 47.47 in 2020.

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 91.73
1961 93.16
1962 94.42
1963 95.44
1964 96.10
1965 96.38
1966 97.10
1967 97.46
1968 97.52
1969 97.38
1970 97.11
1971 97.41
1972 97.35
1973 97.11
1974 96.84
1975 96.62
1976 96.64
1977 96.72
1978 96.76
1979 96.61
1980 96.20
1981 96.09
1982 95.65
1983 95.00
1984 94.32
1985 93.66
1986 93.12
1987 92.55
1988 91.93
1989 91.22
1990 90.38
1991 89.45
1992 88.45
1993 87.39
1994 86.33
1995 85.29
1996 84.27
1997 83.29
1998 82.30
1999 81.24
2000 80.05
2001 78.97
2002 77.62
2003 76.11
2004 74.56
2005 73.03
2006 71.30
2007 69.67
2008 68.03
2009 66.25
2010 64.31
2011 62.38
2012 60.33
2013 58.24
2014 56.25
2015 54.44
2016 52.75
2017 51.26
2018 49.93
2019 48.68
2020 47.47

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