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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Niger was 104.06 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 106.53 in 2013 and a minimum value of 95.49 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 95.49
1961 96.27
1962 96.97
1963 97.54
1964 97.83
1965 97.75
1966 98.76
1967 99.21
1968 99.22
1969 98.93
1970 98.40
1971 98.77
1972 98.81
1973 98.59
1974 98.16
1975 97.53
1976 97.30
1977 97.10
1978 96.92
1979 96.69
1980 96.36
1981 97.63
1982 98.25
1983 98.43
1984 98.37
1985 98.12
1986 98.40
1987 98.50
1988 98.48
1989 98.37
1990 98.14
1991 98.45
1992 98.35
1993 98.00
1994 97.49
1995 96.88
1996 97.24
1997 97.43
1998 97.57
1999 97.74
2000 97.95
2001 99.04
2002 99.86
2003 100.53
2004 101.14
2005 101.71
2006 103.00
2007 103.95
2008 104.65
2009 105.14
2010 105.43
2011 106.08
2012 106.43
2013 106.53
2014 106.43
2015 106.15
2016 106.13
2017 105.87
2018 105.41
2019 104.80
2020 104.06

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