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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Namibia was 61.84 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 94.81 in 1984 and a minimum value of 61.84 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 75.73
1961 76.61
1962 77.47
1963 78.28
1964 78.88
1965 79.26
1966 80.03
1967 80.48
1968 80.75
1969 81.04
1970 81.45
1971 82.25
1972 83.21
1973 84.21
1974 85.04
1975 85.59
1976 87.73
1977 89.41
1978 90.77
1979 92.01
1980 93.20
1981 93.78
1982 94.33
1983 94.72
1984 94.81
1985 94.61
1986 92.80
1987 90.85
1988 88.86
1989 86.90
1990 84.98
1991 84.44
1992 83.74
1993 82.93
1994 82.04
1995 81.08
1996 80.56
1997 79.93
1998 79.13
1999 78.09
2000 76.76
2001 75.51
2002 74.03
2003 72.41
2004 70.84
2005 69.43
2006 67.86
2007 66.69
2008 65.76
2009 64.88
2010 64.00
2011 63.69
2012 63.20
2013 62.68
2014 62.32
2015 62.18
2016 62.05
2017 62.04
2018 62.08
2019 62.04
2020 61.84

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