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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Mauritania was 69.46 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 90.22 in 1972 and a minimum value of 69.46 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 82.98
1961 84.24
1962 85.13
1963 85.78
1964 86.30
1965 86.75
1966 87.71
1967 88.49
1968 89.09
1969 89.42
1970 89.48
1971 90.03
1972 90.22
1973 90.12
1974 89.84
1975 89.43
1976 89.52
1977 89.39
1978 89.08
1979 88.64
1980 88.08
1981 88.05
1982 87.83
1983 87.47
1984 87.03
1985 86.51
1986 86.69
1987 86.75
1988 86.70
1989 86.51
1990 86.19
1991 86.18
1992 85.96
1993 85.58
1994 85.12
1995 84.59
1996 84.15
1997 83.69
1998 83.17
1999 82.54
2000 81.80
2001 81.04
2002 80.14
2003 79.18
2004 78.25
2005 77.38
2006 76.72
2007 76.05
2008 75.41
2009 74.79
2010 74.18
2011 73.77
2012 73.33
2013 72.89
2014 72.40
2015 71.85
2016 71.56
2017 71.13
2018 70.60
2019 70.04
2020 69.46

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