Tunisia - Age dependency ratio

Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Tunisia was 49.62 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 99.56 in 1966 and 44.44 in 2011.

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 89.37
1961 89.73
1962 90.90
1963 93.03
1964 95.72
1965 98.29
1966 99.56
1967 99.36
1968 98.26
1969 97.01
1970 96.00
1971 94.50
1972 93.28
1973 92.23
1974 91.12
1975 89.86
1976 88.71
1977 87.54
1978 86.35
1979 85.16
1980 83.99
1981 82.73
1982 81.36
1983 79.98
1984 78.72
1985 77.62
1986 76.55
1987 75.62
1988 74.77
1989 73.81
1990 72.66
1991 71.46
1992 69.96
1993 68.27
1994 66.55
1995 64.90
1996 63.25
1997 61.74
1998 60.25
1999 58.65
2000 56.94
2001 55.32
2002 53.62
2003 51.93
2004 50.37
2005 48.99
2006 47.73
2007 46.64
2008 45.73
2009 45.03
2010 44.55
2011 44.44
2012 44.56
2013 44.89
2014 45.34
2015 45.89
2016 46.69
2017 47.41
2018 48.12
2019 48.85
2020 49.62

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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Tunisia was 13.28 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 13.28 in 2020 and a minimum value of 6.82 in 1970.

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.

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Year Value
1960 7.06
1961 7.05
1962 7.04
1963 7.05
1964 7.04
1965 7.00
1966 7.04
1967 7.01
1968 6.95
1969 6.88
1970 6.82
1971 6.87
1972 6.90
1973 6.93
1974 6.94
1975 6.95
1976 7.02
1977 7.08
1978 7.14
1979 7.18
1980 7.19
1981 7.31
1982 7.43
1983 7.56
1984 7.71
1985 7.90
1986 7.94
1987 8.02
1988 8.14
1989 8.27
1990 8.41
1991 8.54
1992 8.66
1993 8.78
1994 8.94
1995 9.16
1996 9.43
1997 9.73
1998 10.04
1999 10.32
2000 10.56
2001 10.71
2002 10.83
2003 10.91
2004 10.97
2005 11.01
2006 10.98
2007 10.94
2008 10.89
2009 10.85
2010 10.82
2011 10.83
2012 10.83
2013 10.87
2014 10.98
2015 11.18
2016 11.48
2017 11.87
2018 12.32
2019 12.79
2020 13.28

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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Tunisia was 36.34 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 92.52 in 1966 and a minimum value of 33.61 in 2011.

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 82.31
1961 82.68
1962 83.86
1963 85.99
1964 88.68
1965 91.29
1966 92.52
1967 92.35
1968 91.31
1969 90.13
1970 89.18
1971 87.63
1972 86.37
1973 85.30
1974 84.18
1975 82.91
1976 81.69
1977 80.46
1978 79.21
1979 77.98
1980 76.80
1981 75.41
1982 73.93
1983 72.42
1984 71.01
1985 69.72
1986 68.60
1987 67.60
1988 66.63
1989 65.54
1990 64.25
1991 62.92
1992 61.30
1993 59.49
1994 57.61
1995 55.73
1996 53.82
1997 52.01
1998 50.21
1999 48.33
2000 46.38
2001 44.60
2002 42.79
2003 41.02
2004 39.40
2005 37.98
2006 36.75
2007 35.70
2008 34.84
2009 34.18
2010 33.73
2011 33.61
2012 33.73
2013 34.02
2014 34.37
2015 34.71
2016 35.20
2017 35.54
2018 35.80
2019 36.06
2020 36.34

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population