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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in France was 62.36 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 62.36 in 2020 and 51.58 in 1988.

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 61.32
1961 61.80
1962 61.74
1963 61.31
1964 60.84
1965 60.47
1966 60.53
1967 60.53
1968 60.52
1969 60.49
1970 60.44
1971 60.47
1972 60.51
1973 60.51
1974 60.35
1975 59.97
1976 59.83
1977 59.44
1978 58.82
1979 58.01
1980 57.07
1981 55.86
1982 54.68
1983 53.58
1984 52.62
1985 51.84
1986 51.72
1987 51.62
1988 51.58
1989 51.64
1990 51.78
1991 51.99
1992 52.29
1993 52.64
1994 52.95
1995 53.19
1996 53.41
1997 53.58
1998 53.69
1999 53.75
2000 53.76
2001 53.87
2002 53.90
2003 53.87
2004 53.82
2005 53.76
2006 53.83
2007 53.86
2008 53.94
2009 54.17
2010 54.63
2011 55.34
2012 56.26
2013 57.32
2014 58.38
2015 59.32
2016 60.08
2017 60.72
2018 61.27
2019 61.80
2020 62.36

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