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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Zimbabwe was 76.10 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 104.45 in 1979 and a minimum value of 74.02 in 2007.

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 89.35
1961 90.91
1962 93.26
1963 95.89
1964 97.99
1965 99.19
1966 100.63
1967 101.21
1968 101.22
1969 101.13
1970 101.19
1971 101.49
1972 101.84
1973 102.17
1974 102.38
1975 102.41
1976 103.18
1977 103.82
1978 104.26
1979 104.45
1980 104.36
1981 103.47
1982 102.06
1983 100.35
1984 98.61
1985 96.95
1986 95.33
1987 93.92
1988 92.52
1989 90.78
1990 88.58
1991 87.88
1992 86.55
1993 84.81
1994 83.01
1995 81.29
1996 80.25
1997 79.43
1998 78.66
1999 77.72
2000 76.55
2001 76.05
2002 75.48
2003 74.91
2004 74.54
2005 74.44
2006 74.06
2007 74.02
2008 74.24
2009 74.65
2010 75.22
2011 75.72
2012 76.34
2013 77.01
2014 77.58
2015 77.93
2016 78.32
2017 78.15
2018 77.57
2019 76.84
2020 76.10

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