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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Austria was 28.93 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 28.93 in 2020 and a minimum value of 18.52 in 1960.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, old, is the ratio of older dependents--people 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 18.52
1961 18.92
1962 19.33
1963 19.75
1964 20.18
1965 20.61
1966 21.11
1967 21.59
1968 22.04
1969 22.42
1970 22.74
1971 23.13
1972 23.41
1973 23.60
1974 23.72
1975 23.77
1976 23.98
1977 24.14
1978 24.19
1979 24.03
1980 23.64
1981 23.20
1982 22.54
1983 21.80
1984 21.21
1985 20.87
1986 20.87
1987 21.07
1988 21.38
1989 21.68
1990 21.90
1991 22.19
1992 22.41
1993 22.57
1994 22.65
1995 22.64
1996 22.73
1997 22.74
1998 22.70
1999 22.67
2000 22.70
2001 22.87
2002 23.05
2003 23.27
2004 23.54
2005 23.88
2006 24.34
2007 24.86
2008 25.40
2009 25.91
2010 26.37
2011 26.78
2012 27.13
2013 27.46
2014 27.78
2015 28.10
2016 28.26
2017 28.37
2018 28.49
2019 28.66
2020 28.93

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