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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Seychelles was 46.70 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 98.39 in 1970 and 43.32 in 2013.

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 81.38
1961 83.82
1962 87.15
1963 90.58
1964 92.88
1965 93.64
1966 96.10
1967 97.32
1968 97.76
1969 98.07
1970 98.39
1971 96.73
1972 95.05
1973 93.40
1974 91.57
1975 89.52
1976 88.12
1977 86.51
1978 84.81
1979 83.09
1980 81.41
1981 79.34
1982 77.40
1983 75.61
1984 73.94
1985 72.40
1986 72.77
1987 73.07
1988 73.33
1989 73.62
1990 73.88
1991 70.91
1992 68.29
1993 66.00
1994 63.93
1995 62.01
1996 61.22
1997 60.21
1998 59.06
1999 57.92
2000 56.91
2001 54.23
2002 52.05
2003 50.26
2004 48.63
2005 46.94
2006 46.55
2007 45.94
2008 45.16
2009 44.35
2010 43.65
2011 43.57
2012 43.40
2013 43.32
2014 43.46
2015 43.77
2016 44.16
2017 44.73
2018 45.41
2019 46.08
2020 46.70

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