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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Madagascar was 70.49 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 91.87 in 1978 and a minimum value of 70.49 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 78.98
1961 80.84
1962 82.76
1963 84.56
1964 85.90
1965 86.66
1966 87.99
1967 88.67
1968 88.87
1969 88.88
1970 88.87
1971 89.65
1972 90.23
1973 90.61
1974 90.80
1975 90.80
1976 91.43
1977 91.77
1978 91.87
1979 91.76
1980 91.47
1981 91.72
1982 91.67
1983 91.40
1984 90.98
1985 90.48
1986 90.36
1987 90.12
1988 89.75
1989 89.23
1990 88.62
1991 88.52
1992 88.25
1993 87.87
1994 87.48
1995 87.13
1996 87.29
1997 87.38
1998 87.38
1999 87.27
2000 87.03
2001 87.10
2002 86.91
2003 86.52
2004 85.99
2005 85.37
2006 84.72
2007 84.02
2008 83.23
2009 82.27
2010 81.13
2011 80.06
2012 78.81
2013 77.47
2014 76.19
2015 75.00
2016 73.97
2017 73.04
2018 72.18
2019 71.33
2020 70.49

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