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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Mauritius was 41.45 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 97.35 in 1963 and 41.29 in 2012.

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 96.39
1961 96.65
1962 97.05
1963 97.35
1964 97.09
1965 96.06
1966 95.26
1967 93.45
1968 91.09
1969 88.69
1970 86.40
1971 83.19
1972 80.68
1973 78.53
1974 76.27
1975 73.71
1976 70.71
1977 68.03
1978 66.10
1979 65.07
1980 64.62
1981 63.07
1982 61.46
1983 59.79
1984 58.12
1985 56.50
1986 55.23
1987 53.93
1988 52.68
1989 51.62
1990 50.82
1991 49.95
1992 49.50
1993 49.29
1994 49.03
1995 48.56
1996 48.70
1997 48.31
1998 47.67
1999 47.13
2000 46.84
2001 46.27
2002 46.17
2003 46.26
2004 46.12
2005 45.59
2006 45.17
2007 44.34
2008 43.33
2009 42.50
2010 41.99
2011 41.48
2012 41.29
2013 41.34
2014 41.45
2015 41.55
2016 41.53
2017 41.46
2018 41.38
2019 41.36
2020 41.45

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