The Gambia - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in The Gambia was 82.12 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 93.47 in 2000 and a minimum value of 74.25 in 1965.

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.

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Year Value
1960 76.70
1961 76.84
1962 76.43
1963 75.69
1964 74.91
1965 74.25
1966 74.78
1967 75.18
1968 75.52
1969 75.72
1970 75.75
1971 76.73
1972 77.27
1973 77.58
1974 77.83
1975 78.08
1976 78.91
1977 79.59
1978 80.13
1979 80.42
1980 80.42
1981 81.34
1982 81.68
1983 81.72
1984 81.81
1985 82.13
1986 82.09
1987 82.03
1988 82.01
1989 81.86
1990 81.49
1991 83.57
1992 85.23
1993 86.59
1994 87.77
1995 88.81
1996 90.39
1997 91.62
1998 92.54
1999 93.16
2000 93.47
2001 93.32
2002 92.96
2003 92.41
2004 91.65
2005 90.70
2006 90.13
2007 89.34
2008 88.39
2009 87.42
2010 86.49
2011 86.15
2012 85.72
2013 85.25
2014 84.75
2015 84.22
2016 84.02
2017 83.72
2018 83.30
2019 82.77
2020 82.12

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