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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Seychelles was 34.87 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 86.38 in 1970 and a minimum value of 32.73 in 2012.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, young, is the ratio of younger dependents--people younger than 15--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 70.13
1961 72.43
1962 75.60
1963 78.86
1964 81.05
1965 81.81
1966 84.18
1967 85.36
1968 85.79
1969 86.08
1970 86.38
1971 84.85
1972 83.30
1973 81.73
1974 79.95
1975 77.94
1976 76.49
1977 74.82
1978 73.06
1979 71.30
1980 69.58
1981 67.56
1982 65.70
1983 63.98
1984 62.36
1985 60.82
1986 61.18
1987 61.45
1988 61.70
1989 62.02
1990 62.35
1991 59.46
1992 56.91
1993 54.67
1994 52.63
1995 50.71
1996 49.78
1997 48.64
1998 47.36
1999 46.08
2000 44.95
2001 42.59
2002 40.74
2003 39.30
2004 38.01
2005 36.68
2006 36.31
2007 35.63
2008 34.71
2009 33.69
2010 32.77
2011 32.76
2012 32.73
2013 32.82
2014 33.05
2015 33.36
2016 33.62
2017 33.98
2018 34.37
2019 34.68
2020 34.87

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