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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in South Sudan was 74.71 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 86.28 in 2001 and a minimum value of 74.51 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 74.51
1961 75.25
1962 75.36
1963 75.16
1964 75.04
1965 75.20
1966 76.30
1967 77.46
1968 78.59
1969 79.49
1970 80.04
1971 81.29
1972 82.05
1973 82.42
1974 82.58
1975 82.61
1976 83.32
1977 83.74
1978 83.92
1979 83.87
1980 83.66
1981 84.09
1982 84.15
1983 83.95
1984 83.58
1985 83.03
1986 83.38
1987 83.81
1988 84.15
1989 84.15
1990 83.63
1991 84.28
1992 84.40
1993 84.15
1994 84.03
1995 84.60
1996 85.04
1997 85.39
1998 85.79
1999 86.07
2000 86.04
2001 86.28
2002 86.04
2003 85.46
2004 84.81
2005 84.28
2006 83.99
2007 83.69
2008 83.35
2009 82.79
2010 81.88
2011 81.56
2012 81.05
2013 80.36
2014 79.52
2015 78.53
2016 77.85
2017 77.13
2018 76.34
2019 75.50
2020 74.71

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