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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Papua New Guinea was 63.18 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 86.35 in 1978 and 63.18 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 82.20
1961 83.05
1962 83.97
1963 84.83
1964 85.40
1965 85.62
1966 86.13
1967 86.26
1968 86.13
1969 85.91
1970 85.69
1971 85.88
1972 86.01
1973 86.07
1974 86.06
1975 85.97
1976 86.21
1977 86.33
1978 86.35
1979 86.28
1980 86.14
1981 86.22
1982 86.16
1983 85.95
1984 85.58
1985 85.05
1986 84.68
1987 84.08
1988 83.32
1989 82.46
1990 81.55
1991 80.74
1992 79.95
1993 79.14
1994 78.32
1995 77.49
1996 76.98
1997 76.47
1998 75.96
1999 75.46
2000 74.95
2001 74.81
2002 74.54
2003 74.19
2004 73.84
2005 73.50
2006 73.16
2007 72.83
2008 72.47
2009 71.97
2010 71.29
2011 70.61
2012 69.74
2013 68.75
2014 67.75
2015 66.80
2016 66.05
2017 65.34
2018 64.64
2019 63.92
2020 63.18

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