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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Paraguay was 55.53 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 104.79 in 1960 and 55.53 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 104.79
1961 104.39
1962 104.30
1963 104.36
1964 104.32
1965 104.04
1966 103.10
1967 101.99
1968 100.83
1969 99.69
1970 98.57
1971 97.04
1972 95.43
1973 93.86
1974 92.49
1975 91.37
1976 89.69
1977 88.54
1978 87.71
1979 86.98
1980 86.24
1981 85.66
1982 84.95
1983 84.24
1984 83.74
1985 83.48
1986 83.47
1987 83.52
1988 83.58
1989 83.56
1990 83.41
1991 83.26
1992 82.99
1993 82.54
1994 81.89
1995 81.02
1996 80.08
1997 78.99
1998 77.77
1999 76.41
2000 74.92
2001 73.58
2002 72.03
2003 70.39
2004 68.80
2005 67.32
2006 65.93
2007 64.79
2008 63.79
2009 62.78
2010 61.70
2011 60.76
2012 59.68
2013 58.60
2014 57.69
2015 57.03
2016 56.45
2017 56.12
2018 55.94
2019 55.76
2020 55.53

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