Trinidad and Tobago - Age dependency ratio

Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Trinidad and Tobago was 46.15 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 87.98 in 1964 and 40.39 in 2008.

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 86.23
1961 86.61
1962 87.12
1963 87.68
1964 87.98
1965 87.79
1966 87.88
1967 87.13
1968 85.91
1969 84.75
1970 83.88
1971 81.11
1972 79.21
1973 77.71
1974 75.96
1975 73.77
1976 72.15
1977 69.97
1978 67.69
1979 65.96
1980 65.04
1981 64.58
1982 64.83
1983 65.50
1984 66.04
1985 66.14
1986 66.77
1987 66.69
1988 66.12
1989 65.43
1990 64.78
1991 63.44
1992 62.39
1993 61.38
1994 60.04
1995 58.21
1996 56.21
1997 53.91
1998 51.48
1999 49.19
2000 47.20
2001 45.43
2002 43.92
2003 42.70
2004 41.72
2005 40.96
2006 40.60
2007 40.41
2008 40.39
2009 40.56
2010 40.88
2011 41.30
2012 41.81
2013 42.38
2014 42.98
2015 43.57
2016 44.16
2017 44.72
2018 45.25
2019 45.73
2020 46.15

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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Trinidad and Tobago was 16.83 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 16.83 in 2020 and a minimum value of 6.22 in 1965.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, old, is the ratio of older dependents--people 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 6.46
1961 6.43
1962 6.39
1963 6.34
1964 6.28
1965 6.22
1966 6.51
1967 6.79
1968 7.08
1969 7.37
1970 7.63
1971 7.80
1972 7.94
1973 8.07
1974 8.20
1975 8.34
1976 8.48
1977 8.61
1978 8.74
1979 8.85
1980 8.96
1981 9.03
1982 9.08
1983 9.12
1984 9.14
1985 9.16
1986 9.25
1987 9.31
1988 9.36
1989 9.39
1990 9.40
1991 9.46
1992 9.51
1993 9.54
1994 9.55
1995 9.53
1996 9.55
1997 9.55
1998 9.53
1999 9.52
2000 9.53
2001 9.61
2002 9.70
2003 9.83
2004 9.98
2005 10.16
2006 10.41
2007 10.69
2008 11.00
2009 11.33
2010 11.69
2011 12.08
2012 12.49
2013 12.93
2014 13.39
2015 13.88
2016 14.43
2017 15.00
2018 15.59
2019 16.20
2020 16.83

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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Trinidad and Tobago was 29.32 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 81.70 in 1964 and a minimum value of 29.19 in 2010.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 79.78
1961 80.18
1962 80.74
1963 81.34
1964 81.70
1965 81.57
1966 81.38
1967 80.34
1968 78.83
1969 77.38
1970 76.25
1971 73.31
1972 71.27
1973 69.64
1974 67.76
1975 65.44
1976 63.67
1977 61.36
1978 58.95
1979 57.11
1980 56.08
1981 55.56
1982 55.76
1983 56.38
1984 56.89
1985 56.98
1986 57.53
1987 57.38
1988 56.76
1989 56.04
1990 55.37
1991 53.97
1992 52.88
1993 51.84
1994 50.49
1995 48.69
1996 46.66
1997 44.36
1998 41.95
1999 39.67
2000 37.67
2001 35.82
2002 34.22
2003 32.88
2004 31.74
2005 30.80
2006 30.19
2007 29.71
2008 29.39
2009 29.23
2010 29.19
2011 29.22
2012 29.32
2013 29.45
2014 29.59
2015 29.69
2016 29.73
2017 29.72
2018 29.66
2019 29.53
2020 29.32

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population