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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Samoa was 64.45 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 111.99 in 1967 and a minimum value of 64.45 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 102.38
1961 103.07
1962 104.93
1963 107.43
1964 109.65
1965 111.03
1966 111.96
1967 111.99
1968 111.17
1969 110.02
1970 108.90
1971 108.18
1972 107.83
1973 107.38
1974 106.45
1975 104.95
1976 102.26
1977 99.42
1978 96.40
1979 93.39
1980 90.64
1981 88.15
1982 85.83
1983 83.53
1984 81.27
1985 79.18
1986 77.58
1987 76.21
1988 74.85
1989 73.50
1990 72.36
1991 72.03
1992 72.18
1993 72.65
1994 73.22
1995 73.82
1996 73.45
1997 73.27
1998 73.33
1999 73.69
2000 74.31
2001 73.24
2002 72.60
2003 72.18
2004 71.74
2005 71.18
2006 70.34
2007 69.45
2008 68.58
2009 67.89
2010 67.53
2011 67.01
2012 66.76
2013 66.95
2014 67.60
2015 68.51
2016 68.11
2017 67.89
2018 67.37
2019 66.19
2020 64.45

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