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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Norway was 26.87 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 26.87 in 2020 and a minimum value of 17.51 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 17.51
1961 17.81
1962 18.10
1963 18.38
1964 18.65
1965 18.93
1966 19.26
1967 19.59
1968 19.91
1969 20.21
1970 20.51
1971 20.82
1972 21.09
1973 21.35
1974 21.61
1975 21.87
1976 22.20
1977 22.52
1978 22.82
1979 23.10
1980 23.34
1981 23.62
1982 23.84
1983 24.03
1984 24.21
1985 24.41
1986 24.65
1987 24.87
1988 25.07
1989 25.21
1990 25.27
1991 25.31
1992 25.27
1993 25.17
1994 25.01
1995 24.81
1996 24.63
1997 24.40
1998 24.14
1999 23.86
2000 23.56
2001 23.34
2002 23.11
2003 22.89
2004 22.71
2005 22.59
2006 22.45
2007 22.33
2008 22.27
2009 22.30
2010 22.45
2011 22.82
2012 23.30
2013 23.84
2014 24.36
2015 24.80
2016 25.29
2017 25.70
2018 26.07
2019 26.45
2020 26.87

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