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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Libya was 47.73 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 104.29 in 1977 and 47.73 in 2020.

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 83.94
1961 84.84
1962 85.93
1963 87.13
1964 88.27
1965 89.31
1966 91.11
1967 92.73
1968 94.23
1969 95.69
1970 97.11
1971 98.96
1972 100.46
1973 101.67
1974 102.64
1975 103.34
1976 103.99
1977 104.29
1978 104.20
1979 103.66
1980 102.64
1981 100.82
1982 98.60
1983 96.12
1984 93.54
1985 90.94
1986 89.21
1987 87.47
1988 85.63
1989 83.61
1990 81.36
1991 79.31
1992 76.93
1993 74.41
1994 71.96
1995 69.68
1996 67.58
1997 65.71
1998 63.95
1999 62.16
2000 60.30
2001 58.47
2002 56.59
2003 54.79
2004 53.20
2005 51.86
2006 50.99
2007 50.35
2008 49.88
2009 49.48
2010 49.09
2011 49.16
2012 49.22
2013 49.28
2014 49.37
2015 49.49
2016 49.26
2017 48.96
2018 48.61
2019 48.21
2020 47.73

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