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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Norway was 53.34 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 60.11 in 1972 and 50.83 in 2010.

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 58.64
1961 58.91
1962 58.78
1963 58.41
1964 58.12
1965 58.07
1966 58.17
1967 58.49
1968 58.95
1969 59.36
1970 59.60
1971 59.98
1972 60.11
1973 60.08
1974 60.01
1975 59.93
1976 59.78
1977 59.59
1978 59.33
1979 58.96
1980 58.49
1981 57.88
1982 57.28
1983 56.68
1984 56.09
1985 55.54
1986 55.28
1987 55.01
1988 54.77
1989 54.60
1990 54.51
1991 54.60
1992 54.70
1993 54.81
1994 54.91
1995 54.96
1996 55.01
1997 54.98
1998 54.88
1999 54.69
2000 54.42
2001 54.11
2002 53.72
2003 53.28
2004 52.86
2005 52.50
2006 52.01
2007 51.58
2008 51.23
2009 50.97
2010 50.83
2011 51.03
2012 51.27
2013 51.56
2014 51.85
2015 52.13
2016 52.43
2017 52.68
2018 52.90
2019 53.11
2020 53.34

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