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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Kenya was 65.52 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 106.82 in 1982 and a minimum value of 65.52 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 93.45
1961 95.74
1962 97.65
1963 99.16
1964 100.27
1965 100.99
1966 102.09
1967 102.70
1968 102.98
1969 103.14
1970 103.31
1971 103.92
1972 104.46
1973 104.92
1974 105.26
1975 105.44
1976 106.03
1977 106.33
1978 106.44
1979 106.47
1980 106.47
1981 106.69
1982 106.82
1983 106.80
1984 106.54
1985 106.00
1986 105.71
1987 105.08
1988 104.15
1989 102.94
1990 101.45
1991 99.98
1992 98.13
1993 96.06
1994 94.00
1995 92.07
1996 90.65
1997 89.57
1998 88.62
1999 87.53
2000 86.22
2001 85.64
2002 84.62
2003 83.41
2004 82.39
2005 81.69
2006 81.11
2007 80.81
2008 80.61
2009 80.23
2010 79.52
2011 78.76
2012 77.65
2013 76.29
2014 74.86
2015 73.41
2016 71.86
2017 70.30
2018 68.73
2019 67.13
2020 65.52

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