The Bahamas - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in The Bahamas was 41.54 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 87.73 in 1965 and 41.54 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 85.80
1961 85.62
1962 85.80
1963 86.38
1964 87.12
1965 87.73
1966 86.81
1967 85.67
1968 84.62
1969 83.94
1970 83.65
1971 81.48
1972 80.53
1973 80.20
1974 79.72
1975 78.70
1976 77.65
1977 75.60
1978 73.17
1979 71.11
1980 69.74
1981 67.65
1982 66.63
1983 66.17
1984 65.51
1985 64.33
1986 63.65
1987 62.17
1988 60.34
1989 58.85
1990 57.99
1991 57.00
1992 56.80
1993 57.00
1994 56.93
1995 56.30
1996 56.21
1997 55.52
1998 54.47
1999 53.58
2000 53.12
2001 52.46
2002 52.06
2003 51.80
2004 51.53
2005 51.26
2006 50.80
2007 50.55
2008 50.30
2009 49.88
2010 49.25
2011 48.44
2012 47.40
2013 46.26
2014 45.17
2015 44.26
2016 43.32
2017 42.72
2018 42.33
2019 41.96
2020 41.54

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