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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Togo was 71.98 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 92.68 in 1983 and a minimum value of 71.98 in 2020.

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 79.81
1961 80.57
1962 81.05
1963 81.33
1964 81.64
1965 82.19
1966 83.14
1967 83.89
1968 84.56
1969 85.10
1970 85.37
1971 86.46
1972 87.39
1973 88.11
1974 88.61
1975 88.90
1976 89.86
1977 90.52
1978 90.94
1979 91.26
1980 91.58
1981 92.19
1982 92.54
1983 92.68
1984 92.61
1985 92.27
1986 92.48
1987 92.37
1988 91.97
1989 91.29
1990 90.34
1991 90.27
1992 89.90
1993 89.29
1994 88.55
1995 87.77
1996 86.15
1997 84.59
1998 83.10
1999 81.66
2000 80.26
2001 79.94
2002 79.55
2003 79.15
2004 78.80
2005 78.56
2006 78.65
2007 78.72
2008 78.75
2009 78.69
2010 78.53
2011 78.44
2012 78.18
2013 77.77
2014 77.22
2015 76.53
2016 75.82
2017 75.01
2018 74.08
2019 73.06
2020 71.98

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