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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Zambia was 81.74 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 99.61 in 1977 and a minimum value of 81.74 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.

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Year Value
1960 88.69
1961 89.99
1962 91.09
1963 92.03
1964 92.86
1965 93.57
1966 94.67
1967 95.45
1968 96.00
1969 96.43
1970 96.82
1971 97.43
1972 98.03
1973 98.53
1974 98.82
1975 98.86
1976 99.43
1977 99.61
1978 99.54
1979 99.37
1980 99.16
1981 99.09
1982 98.86
1983 98.48
1984 97.90
1985 97.11
1986 96.89
1987 96.49
1988 95.91
1989 95.12
1990 94.15
1991 94.15
1992 93.90
1993 93.46
1994 92.93
1995 92.39
1996 92.19
1997 91.89
1998 91.52
1999 91.10
2000 90.65
2001 91.20
2002 91.67
2003 92.08
2004 92.41
2005 92.65
2006 93.14
2007 93.40
2008 93.49
2009 93.48
2010 93.40
2011 92.78
2012 92.14
2013 91.39
2014 90.44
2015 89.23
2016 88.00
2017 86.49
2018 84.84
2019 83.23
2020 81.74

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