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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Senegal was 84.16 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 100.68 in 1987 and 84.16 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 87.02
1961 88.10
1962 89.12
1963 89.96
1964 90.37
1965 90.26
1966 90.91
1967 90.89
1968 90.38
1969 89.64
1970 88.83
1971 89.46
1972 89.74
1973 89.77
1974 89.62
1975 89.31
1976 91.17
1977 92.69
1978 93.95
1979 95.04
1980 96.00
1981 97.37
1982 98.48
1983 99.32
1984 99.84
1985 100.02
1986 100.62
1987 100.68
1988 100.36
1989 99.85
1990 99.23
1991 98.85
1992 98.40
1993 97.80
1994 96.95
1995 95.80
1996 95.49
1997 94.85
1998 93.96
1999 92.98
2000 91.99
2001 91.36
2002 90.66
2003 89.92
2004 89.21
2005 88.55
2006 88.27
2007 88.06
2008 87.88
2009 87.70
2010 87.49
2011 87.56
2012 87.52
2013 87.40
2014 87.24
2015 87.04
2016 86.72
2017 86.26
2018 85.67
2019 84.97
2020 84.16

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