.png "Philippines Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)")
| Data: | Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) | ||||||||
| Year: | 1960 - 2013 | ||||||||
| Country: | Philippines | ||||||||
| Source: | World Bank (the information in this section is direct quotation from World Bank development data) | ||||||||
| Series Code: | SP.POP.DPND | ||||||||
| Topic: | Health: Population: Dynamics | ||||||||
| Short Definition: | 0 | ||||||||
| Long 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. | ||||||||
| Unit of Measurement: | 0 | ||||||||
| Periodicity: | Annual | ||||||||
| Base Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Reference Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Aggregation method: | Weighted average | ||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||
| Notes from original source: | 0 | ||||||||
| 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 ratio. | ||||||||
| Original Source: | World Bank staff estimates from various sources including census reports, the United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects, national statistical offices, household surveys conducted by national agencies, and ICF International. | ||||||||
| 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 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. |
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| Development relevance: | Patterns of development in a country are partly determined by the age composition of the population. Because different age groups have varying impacts on infrastructure needs, resource use and planning, and impacts on the environment, the age structure of a population is useful for analyzing future policy and planning goals involving infrastructure and development patterns. | ||||||||
