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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Oman was 33.33 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 97.91 in 1970 and 31.78 in 2015.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 87.38
1961 88.84
1962 89.99
1963 90.96
1964 91.87
1965 92.79
1966 94.09
1967 95.29
1968 96.36
1969 97.25
1970 97.91
1971 97.59
1972 96.99
1973 96.30
1974 95.78
1975 95.62
1976 94.16
1977 93.17
1978 92.50
1979 91.99
1980 91.59
1981 92.06
1982 92.27
1983 92.35
1984 92.40
1985 92.35
1986 92.45
1987 92.44
1988 92.27
1989 91.71
1990 90.60
1991 86.92
1992 83.11
1993 79.19
1994 75.24
1995 71.36
1996 70.54
1997 69.28
1998 67.93
1999 66.64
2000 65.39
2001 63.49
2002 61.33
2003 58.94
2004 56.45
2005 54.00
2006 49.67
2007 46.11
2008 43.35
2009 41.24
2010 39.62
2011 37.00
2012 34.87
2013 33.33
2014 32.36
2015 31.78
2016 31.92
2017 32.25
2018 32.70
2019 33.10
2020 33.33

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