Puerto Rico - Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Puerto Rico was 32.84 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 32.84 in 2020 and a minimum value of 10.27 in 1963.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, old, is the ratio of older dependents--people 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 10.38
1961 10.34
1962 10.29
1963 10.27
1964 10.29
1965 10.35
1966 10.52
1967 10.73
1968 11.00
1969 11.34
1970 11.74
1971 11.59
1972 11.41
1973 11.22
1974 11.01
1975 10.79
1976 11.17
1977 11.60
1978 12.09
1979 12.65
1980 13.25
1981 13.44
1982 13.65
1983 13.88
1984 14.13
1985 14.38
1986 14.60
1987 14.82
1988 15.08
1989 15.38
1990 15.69
1991 15.83
1992 15.95
1993 16.08
1994 16.23
1995 16.41
1996 16.56
1997 16.73
1998 16.94
1999 17.18
2000 17.47
2001 17.72
2002 17.95
2003 18.17
2004 18.38
2005 18.60
2006 18.88
2007 19.13
2008 19.34
2009 19.55
2010 19.79
2011 20.60
2012 21.52
2013 22.51
2014 23.53
2015 24.53
2016 25.91
2017 27.37
2018 28.96
2019 30.76
2020 32.84

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

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population