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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Uganda was 88.49 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 103.58 in 2002 and a minimum value of 88.49 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 88.80
1961 89.50
1962 90.15
1963 90.71
1964 91.08
1965 91.19
1966 91.92
1967 92.34
1968 92.53
1969 92.56
1970 92.42
1971 92.90
1972 93.14
1973 93.20
1974 93.14
1975 93.05
1976 93.29
1977 93.47
1978 93.59
1979 93.59
1980 93.44
1981 93.89
1982 94.05
1983 94.06
1984 94.08
1985 94.20
1986 94.97
1987 95.69
1988 96.33
1989 96.83
1990 97.17
1991 98.36
1992 99.29
1993 100.00
1994 100.51
1995 100.83
1996 101.82
1997 102.53
1998 103.00
1999 103.26
2000 103.34
2001 103.56
2002 103.58
2003 103.44
2004 103.14
2005 102.71
2006 102.43
2007 102.00
2008 101.45
2009 100.82
2010 100.11
2011 99.47
2012 98.68
2013 97.77
2014 96.78
2015 95.73
2016 94.55
2017 93.22
2018 91.79
2019 90.23
2020 88.49

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