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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Sierra Leone was 71.12 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 85.04 in 1996 and a minimum value of 66.15 in 1960.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 66.15
1961 66.92
1962 67.39
1963 67.67
1964 67.86
1965 68.01
1966 69.21
1967 70.15
1968 70.89
1969 71.50
1970 71.99
1971 73.31
1972 74.37
1973 75.20
1974 75.83
1975 76.26
1976 77.42
1977 78.23
1978 78.77
1979 79.14
1980 79.39
1981 80.32
1982 81.02
1983 81.51
1984 81.82
1985 82.01
1986 82.92
1987 83.53
1988 83.90
1989 83.98
1990 83.66
1991 84.32
1992 84.78
1993 84.98
1994 84.94
1995 84.77
1996 85.04
1997 84.89
1998 84.50
1999 84.15
2000 84.07
2001 84.00
2002 83.79
2003 83.51
2004 83.07
2005 82.36
2006 82.24
2007 81.92
2008 81.40
2009 80.69
2010 79.84
2011 79.41
2012 78.75
2013 77.94
2014 77.03
2015 76.07
2016 75.19
2017 74.30
2018 73.36
2019 72.30
2020 71.12

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