Trinidad and Tobago - 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.

See also:

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

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