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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Luxembourg was 42.75 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 53.28 in 1970 and 42.75 in 2020.

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 47.07
1961 48.05
1962 48.97
1963 49.81
1964 50.52
1965 51.09
1966 51.90
1967 52.54
1968 52.99
1969 53.23
1970 53.28
1971 53.20
1972 52.85
1973 52.31
1974 51.66
1975 50.93
1976 50.44
1977 50.00
1978 49.51
1979 48.84
1980 47.92
1981 47.19
1982 46.23
1983 45.23
1984 44.39
1985 43.84
1986 43.60
1987 43.55
1988 43.69
1989 43.98
1990 44.41
1991 44.99
1992 45.68
1993 46.43
1994 47.17
1995 47.81
1996 48.40
1997 48.80
1998 49.04
1999 49.20
2000 49.29
2001 49.49
2002 49.60
2003 49.62
2004 49.52
2005 49.35
2006 48.69
2007 47.99
2008 47.32
2009 46.75
2010 46.28
2011 45.68
2012 45.12
2013 44.60
2014 44.09
2015 43.62
2016 43.43
2017 43.21
2018 42.98
2019 42.82
2020 42.75

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