Peru - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Peru was 50.19 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 93.70 in 1967 and 50.19 in 2020.

Definition: Age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents--people younger than 15 or older than 64--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 89.34
1961 90.48
1962 91.53
1963 92.41
1964 92.94
1965 93.07
1966 93.65
1967 93.70
1968 93.38
1969 92.89
1970 92.34
1971 92.18
1972 91.89
1973 91.46
1974 90.83
1975 89.97
1976 89.38
1977 88.51
1978 87.44
1979 86.28
1980 85.08
1981 84.15
1982 83.17
1983 82.16
1984 81.09
1985 79.98
1986 79.17
1987 78.31
1988 77.41
1989 76.47
1990 75.50
1991 74.66
1992 73.74
1993 72.77
1994 71.77
1995 70.75
1996 69.61
1997 68.45
1998 67.25
1999 66.02
2000 64.75
2001 63.68
2002 62.69
2003 61.77
2004 60.91
2005 60.08
2006 59.33
2007 58.68
2008 58.10
2009 57.55
2010 57.01
2011 56.48
2012 55.85
2013 55.26
2014 54.90
2015 54.82
2016 53.04
2017 51.91
2018 51.24
2019 50.71
2020 50.19

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

General Comments: Relevance to gender indicator: this indicator implies the dependency burden that the working-age population bears in relation to children and the elderly. Many times single or widowed women who are the sole caregiver of a household have a high dependency

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population