Togo - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Togo was 77.12 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 98.53 in 1983 and 77.12 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 85.78
1961 86.52
1962 86.94
1963 87.15
1964 87.34
1965 87.76
1966 88.68
1967 89.41
1968 90.05
1969 90.57
1970 90.82
1971 91.96
1972 92.93
1973 93.67
1974 94.17
1975 94.46
1976 95.50
1977 96.22
1978 96.69
1979 97.02
1980 97.34
1981 98.00
1982 98.37
1983 98.53
1984 98.46
1985 98.12
1986 98.36
1987 98.26
1988 97.85
1989 97.15
1990 96.19
1991 96.14
1992 95.78
1993 95.16
1994 94.40
1995 93.58
1996 91.88
1997 90.22
1998 88.63
1999 87.07
2000 85.57
2001 85.22
2002 84.80
2003 84.34
2004 83.95
2005 83.65
2006 83.75
2007 83.80
2008 83.81
2009 83.74
2010 83.54
2011 83.48
2012 83.25
2013 82.86
2014 82.31
2015 81.62
2016 80.94
2017 80.14
2018 79.22
2019 78.21
2020 77.12

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

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