Other small states - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Other small states was 57.16 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 80.74 in 1967 and 57.16 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 78.25
1961 79.00
1962 79.57
1963 79.98
1964 80.17
1965 80.13
1966 80.58
1967 80.74
1968 80.70
1969 80.60
1970 80.50
1971 80.45
1972 80.40
1973 80.34
1974 80.20
1975 79.97
1976 80.29
1977 80.43
1978 80.47
1979 80.50
1980 80.53
1981 80.58
1982 80.59
1983 80.57
1984 80.48
1985 80.30
1986 80.31
1987 80.11
1988 79.77
1989 79.36
1990 78.89
1991 78.69
1992 78.47
1993 78.15
1994 77.64
1995 76.93
1996 76.53
1997 75.83
1998 74.95
1999 73.96
2000 72.95
2001 71.83
2002 70.76
2003 69.69
2004 68.54
2005 67.29
2006 65.83
2007 64.29
2008 62.81
2009 61.50
2010 60.41
2011 59.82
2012 59.31
2013 58.90
2014 58.56
2015 58.26
2016 58.04
2017 57.82
2018 57.60
2019 57.39
2020 57.16

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