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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Mozambique was 88.41 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 101.02 in 1990 and 82.76 in 1960.

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 82.76
1961 83.60
1962 84.24
1963 84.70
1964 85.02
1965 85.19
1966 86.14
1967 86.75
1968 87.11
1969 87.31
1970 87.40
1971 88.16
1972 88.66
1973 88.95
1974 89.04
1975 88.95
1976 89.26
1977 89.27
1978 89.03
1979 88.63
1980 88.07
1981 89.26
1982 90.21
1983 90.90
1984 91.26
1985 91.24
1986 93.77
1987 95.91
1988 97.68
1989 99.30
1990 101.02
1991 98.21
1992 95.91
1993 94.11
1994 92.65
1995 91.33
1996 91.78
1997 91.96
1998 91.91
1999 91.79
2000 91.71
2001 92.32
2002 92.84
2003 93.27
2004 93.57
2005 93.68
2006 94.48
2007 94.94
2008 95.15
2009 95.19
2010 95.11
2011 95.12
2012 95.00
2013 94.72
2014 94.23
2015 93.50
2016 92.74
2017 91.78
2018 90.70
2019 89.56
2020 88.41

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