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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Greece was 34.79 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 34.79 in 2020 and a minimum value of 10.74 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 10.74
1961 10.96
1962 11.16
1963 11.35
1964 11.56
1965 11.80
1966 12.47
1967 13.22
1968 14.05
1969 14.96
1970 15.97
1971 16.46
1972 16.93
1973 17.38
1974 17.80
1975 18.18
1976 18.53
1977 18.86
1978 19.15
1979 19.37
1980 19.52
1981 19.58
1982 19.60
1983 19.59
1984 19.58
1985 19.58
1986 19.57
1987 19.61
1988 19.72
1989 19.96
1990 20.31
1991 20.48
1992 20.71
1993 20.98
1994 21.30
1995 21.65
1996 22.12
1997 22.60
1998 23.08
1999 23.56
2000 24.03
2001 24.63
2002 25.23
2003 25.79
2004 26.25
2005 26.59
2006 27.20
2007 27.67
2008 28.07
2009 28.53
2010 29.11
2011 29.59
2012 30.20
2013 30.89
2014 31.58
2015 32.22
2016 32.75
2017 33.23
2018 33.69
2019 34.20
2020 34.79

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