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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Mozambique was 83.02 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 93.72 in 1990 and a minimum value of 76.75 in 1960.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 76.75
1961 77.50
1962 78.06
1963 78.48
1964 78.75
1965 78.90
1966 79.77
1967 80.33
1968 80.66
1969 80.85
1970 80.93
1971 81.63
1972 82.10
1973 82.37
1974 82.45
1975 82.38
1976 82.67
1977 82.67
1978 82.46
1979 82.08
1980 81.57
1981 82.68
1982 83.57
1983 84.22
1984 84.57
1985 84.55
1986 86.90
1987 88.88
1988 90.53
1989 92.06
1990 93.72
1991 91.07
1992 88.93
1993 87.28
1994 85.95
1995 84.76
1996 85.21
1997 85.41
1998 85.40
1999 85.34
2000 85.32
2001 85.94
2002 86.49
2003 86.98
2004 87.34
2005 87.54
2006 88.35
2007 88.85
2008 89.11
2009 89.22
2010 89.23
2011 89.25
2012 89.18
2013 88.95
2014 88.53
2015 87.89
2016 87.14
2017 86.22
2018 85.19
2019 84.10
2020 83.02

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