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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Namibia was 67.86 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 102.02 in 1984 and 67.86 in 2020.

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 82.92
1961 83.81
1962 84.67
1963 85.46
1964 86.04
1965 86.38
1966 87.18
1967 87.66
1968 87.92
1969 88.18
1970 88.55
1971 89.35
1972 90.29
1973 91.25
1974 92.02
1975 92.51
1976 94.74
1977 96.48
1978 97.89
1979 99.15
1980 100.36
1981 100.98
1982 101.55
1983 101.94
1984 102.02
1985 101.76
1986 99.85
1987 97.79
1988 95.67
1989 93.59
1990 91.57
1991 91.03
1992 90.32
1993 89.49
1994 88.56
1995 87.53
1996 86.96
1997 86.25
1998 85.34
1999 84.16
2000 82.68
2001 81.57
2002 80.23
2003 78.75
2004 77.32
2005 76.06
2006 74.58
2007 73.49
2008 72.65
2009 71.86
2010 71.05
2011 70.61
2012 69.97
2013 69.28
2014 68.77
2015 68.48
2016 68.28
2017 68.21
2018 68.20
2019 68.11
2020 67.86

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