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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Antigua and Barbuda was 31.75 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 86.86 in 1970 and a minimum value of 31.75 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 81.44
1961 81.86
1962 82.35
1963 82.99
1964 83.72
1965 84.48
1966 84.66
1967 85.04
1968 85.69
1969 86.43
1970 86.86
1971 83.79
1972 81.18
1973 79.14
1974 77.67
1975 76.63
1976 73.91
1977 71.50
1978 69.58
1979 68.19
1980 67.15
1981 64.80
1982 62.65
1983 60.87
1984 59.48
1985 58.34
1986 56.27
1987 54.28
1988 52.61
1989 51.25
1990 50.26
1991 49.46
1992 48.71
1993 48.11
1994 47.72
1995 47.43
1996 46.56
1997 45.82
1998 45.23
1999 44.77
2000 44.33
2001 43.36
2002 42.46
2003 41.60
2004 40.75
2005 39.85
2006 39.13
2007 38.34
2008 37.48
2009 36.57
2010 35.64
2011 35.10
2012 34.43
2013 33.73
2014 33.11
2015 32.59
2016 32.36
2017 32.13
2018 31.95
2019 31.82
2020 31.75

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