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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Lebanon was 48.41 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 96.02 in 1964 and 47.44 in 2010.

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.

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Year Value
1960 90.70
1961 92.06
1962 93.73
1963 95.26
1964 96.02
1965 95.73
1966 95.33
1967 94.05
1968 92.17
1969 90.22
1970 88.49
1971 86.90
1972 85.40
1973 83.99
1974 82.54
1975 80.93
1976 80.75
1977 80.70
1978 80.65
1979 80.54
1980 80.34
1981 80.37
1982 80.09
1983 79.63
1984 79.14
1985 78.70
1986 77.53
1987 76.47
1988 75.49
1989 74.61
1990 73.96
1991 70.51
1992 67.53
1993 65.02
1994 62.81
1995 60.73
1996 60.51
1997 60.07
1998 59.44
1999 58.77
2000 58.21
2001 58.60
2002 58.76
2003 58.67
2004 58.13
2005 56.96
2006 55.15
2007 53.02
2008 50.71
2009 48.69
2010 47.44
2011 47.49
2012 48.03
2013 48.99
2014 50.03
2015 50.75
2016 50.41
2017 50.00
2018 49.47
2019 48.91
2020 48.41

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