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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Germany was 33.70 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 33.70 in 2020 and a minimum value of 17.11 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 17.11
1961 17.53
1962 17.96
1963 18.40
1964 18.84
1965 19.29
1966 19.80
1967 20.29
1968 20.75
1969 21.18
1970 21.57
1971 22.08
1972 22.51
1973 22.87
1974 23.17
1975 23.40
1976 23.75
1977 24.04
1978 24.20
1979 24.13
1980 23.79
1981 23.39
1982 22.74
1983 21.99
1984 21.36
1985 20.96
1986 20.85
1987 20.93
1988 21.14
1989 21.37
1990 21.56
1991 21.85
1992 22.12
1993 22.35
1994 22.53
1995 22.67
1996 23.00
1997 23.25
1998 23.48
1999 23.82
2000 24.30
2001 25.00
2002 25.82
2003 26.71
2004 27.55
2005 28.28
2006 29.06
2007 29.72
2008 30.28
2009 30.76
2010 31.20
2011 31.47
2012 31.67
2013 31.85
2014 32.07
2015 32.36
2016 32.55
2017 32.79
2018 33.06
2019 33.36
2020 33.70

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