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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Austria was 50.64 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 63.16 in 1972 and 46.63 in 1989.

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.

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Year Value
1960 52.40
1961 53.37
1962 54.29
1963 55.25
1964 56.31
1965 57.48
1966 58.72
1967 59.99
1968 61.19
1969 62.14
1970 62.75
1971 63.16
1972 63.16
1973 62.81
1974 62.20
1975 61.37
1976 60.55
1977 59.65
1978 58.58
1979 57.22
1980 55.56
1981 53.95
1982 52.14
1983 50.32
1984 48.77
1985 47.61
1986 47.11
1987 46.79
1988 46.64
1989 46.63
1990 46.74
1991 47.13
1992 47.71
1993 48.36
1994 48.86
1995 49.05
1996 49.12
1997 48.84
1998 48.33
1999 47.84
2000 47.53
2001 47.33
2002 47.27
2003 47.33
2004 47.40
2005 47.43
2006 47.61
2007 47.75
2008 47.88
2009 48.02
2010 48.18
2011 48.31
2012 48.46
2013 48.65
2014 48.88
2015 49.17
2016 49.43
2017 49.67
2018 49.92
2019 50.23
2020 50.64

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