New Caledonia - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in New Caledonia was 46.64 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 74.00 in 1976 and 46.64 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 69.51
1961 69.71
1962 70.02
1963 70.39
1964 70.67
1965 70.76
1966 70.92
1967 70.83
1968 70.59
1969 70.48
1970 70.62
1971 71.52
1972 72.50
1973 73.30
1974 73.51
1975 72.97
1976 74.00
1977 73.91
1978 73.17
1979 72.37
1980 71.74
1981 70.78
1982 70.34
1983 69.94
1984 69.05
1985 67.52
1986 66.15
1987 64.30
1988 62.22
1989 60.31
1990 58.80
1991 57.51
1992 56.49
1993 55.75
1994 55.25
1995 54.93
1996 54.71
1997 54.84
1998 55.21
1999 55.58
2000 55.79
2001 55.27
2002 54.46
2003 53.45
2004 52.45
2005 51.58
2006 50.30
2007 49.59
2008 49.31
2009 49.23
2010 49.13
2011 49.22
2012 48.90
2013 48.36
2014 47.86
2015 47.49
2016 47.21
2017 47.01
2018 46.88
2019 46.76
2020 46.64

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