South Sudan - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in South Sudan was 80.77 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 92.24 in 2001 and 79.46 in 1960.

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 79.46
1961 80.19
1962 80.26
1963 79.99
1964 79.79
1965 79.85
1966 80.99
1967 82.18
1968 83.32
1969 84.21
1970 84.73
1971 86.05
1972 86.85
1973 87.25
1974 87.41
1975 87.44
1976 88.22
1977 88.70
1978 88.91
1979 88.88
1980 88.67
1981 89.16
1982 89.25
1983 89.07
1984 88.70
1985 88.16
1986 88.60
1987 89.09
1988 89.46
1989 89.48
1990 88.95
1991 89.74
1992 89.95
1993 89.77
1994 89.66
1995 90.20
1996 90.72
1997 91.14
1998 91.60
1999 91.93
2000 91.95
2001 92.24
2002 92.04
2003 91.49
2004 90.87
2005 90.38
2006 90.11
2007 89.85
2008 89.54
2009 89.01
2010 88.14
2011 87.87
2012 87.39
2013 86.72
2014 85.87
2015 84.83
2016 84.15
2017 83.39
2018 82.54
2019 81.64
2020 80.77

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