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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Philippines was 55.17 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 102.54 in 1964 and 55.17 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 100.46
1961 100.82
1962 101.59
1963 102.36
1964 102.54
1965 101.91
1966 101.52
1967 100.43
1968 98.91
1969 97.37
1970 96.00
1971 94.91
1972 93.88
1973 92.90
1974 91.89
1975 90.83
1976 89.98
1977 89.13
1978 88.24
1979 87.32
1980 86.36
1981 85.55
1982 84.64
1983 83.68
1984 82.77
1985 81.92
1986 81.30
1987 80.75
1988 80.21
1989 79.58
1990 78.82
1991 78.25
1992 77.49
1993 76.64
1994 75.79
1995 74.99
1996 74.29
1997 73.66
1998 73.05
1999 72.38
2000 71.64
2001 71.05
2002 70.41
2003 69.74
2004 69.03
2005 68.21
2006 67.13
2007 65.92
2008 64.52
2009 63.03
2010 61.63
2011 60.90
2012 60.25
2013 59.67
2014 59.09
2015 58.44
2016 57.94
2017 57.25
2018 56.46
2019 55.74
2020 55.17

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