St. Vincent and the Grenadines - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in St. Vincent and the Grenadines was 46.65 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 121.05 in 1965 and 46.65 in 2020.

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.

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Year Value
1960 115.83
1961 116.99
1962 118.14
1963 119.21
1964 120.15
1965 121.05
1966 120.98
1967 120.76
1968 120.44
1969 120.16
1970 119.98
1971 118.68
1972 117.42
1973 116.01
1974 114.29
1975 112.28
1976 109.86
1977 107.03
1978 103.98
1979 100.92
1980 98.03
1981 94.85
1982 92.02
1983 89.31
1984 86.60
1985 83.87
1986 82.25
1987 80.92
1988 79.94
1989 79.35
1990 79.01
1991 76.82
1992 74.87
1993 73.08
1994 71.33
1995 69.61
1996 67.93
1997 66.28
1998 64.69
1999 63.29
2000 62.10
2001 60.55
2002 59.16
2003 57.87
2004 56.61
2005 55.34
2006 54.52
2007 53.85
2008 53.21
2009 52.47
2010 51.66
2011 51.22
2012 50.65
2013 50.02
2014 49.50
2015 49.17
2016 48.57
2017 47.92
2018 47.34
2019 46.92
2020 46.65

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