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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Netherlands was 31.18 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 31.18 in 2020 and a minimum value of 14.60 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 14.60
1961 14.77
1962 14.91
1963 15.02
1964 15.14
1965 15.28
1966 15.45
1967 15.62
1968 15.79
1969 15.96
1970 16.13
1971 16.28
1972 16.41
1973 16.52
1974 16.61
1975 16.68
1976 16.83
1977 16.96
1978 17.06
1979 17.13
1980 17.16
1981 17.23
1982 17.26
1983 17.27
1984 17.32
1985 17.42
1986 17.59
1987 17.80
1988 18.03
1989 18.24
1990 18.43
1991 18.61
1992 18.76
1993 18.89
1994 19.02
1995 19.17
1996 19.35
1997 19.53
1998 19.70
1999 19.85
2000 19.99
2001 20.18
2002 20.36
2003 20.54
2004 20.72
2005 20.92
2006 21.25
2007 21.58
2008 21.94
2009 22.41
2010 23.03
2011 23.79
2012 24.69
2013 25.65
2014 26.58
2015 27.43
2016 28.24
2017 28.98
2018 29.67
2019 30.39
2020 31.18

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