Trinidad and Tobago - 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.

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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

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