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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Gabon was 62.94 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 80.23 in 1993 and a minimum value of 50.44 in 1960.

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 50.44
1961 51.23
1962 51.89
1963 52.49
1964 53.07
1965 53.67
1966 54.68
1967 55.61
1968 56.48
1969 57.32
1970 58.14
1971 59.91
1972 61.50
1973 62.96
1974 64.35
1975 65.69
1976 67.20
1977 68.61
1978 69.92
1979 71.07
1980 72.06
1981 73.28
1982 74.29
1983 75.12
1984 75.84
1985 76.48
1986 77.35
1987 78.04
1988 78.60
1989 79.03
1990 79.35
1991 79.81
1992 80.10
1993 80.23
1994 80.14
1995 79.84
1996 79.50
1997 78.93
1998 78.17
1999 77.27
2000 76.28
2001 75.15
2002 73.94
2003 72.70
2004 71.48
2005 70.33
2006 68.72
2007 67.27
2008 66.00
2009 64.91
2010 64.02
2011 63.02
2012 62.14
2013 61.44
2014 60.91
2015 60.51
2016 61.18
2017 61.79
2018 62.32
2019 62.72
2020 62.94

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