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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Poland was 28.37 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 28.37 in 2020 and a minimum value of 9.37 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 9.37
1961 9.69
1962 10.02
1963 10.35
1964 10.68
1965 11.02
1966 11.37
1967 11.70
1968 12.03
1969 12.36
1970 12.71
1971 13.09
1972 13.45
1973 13.80
1974 14.14
1975 14.46
1976 14.79
1977 15.11
1978 15.39
1979 15.54
1980 15.52
1981 15.35
1982 15.02
1983 14.64
1984 14.33
1985 14.18
1986 14.29
1987 14.50
1988 14.79
1989 15.08
1990 15.32
1991 15.65
1992 15.94
1993 16.19
1994 16.41
1995 16.58
1996 16.87
1997 17.10
1998 17.28
1999 17.44
2000 17.57
2001 17.86
2002 18.13
2003 18.38
2004 18.54
2005 18.60
2006 18.66
2007 18.63
2008 18.58
2009 18.65
2010 18.89
2011 19.39
2012 20.04
2013 20.84
2014 21.72
2015 22.66
2016 23.72
2017 24.83
2018 25.98
2019 27.16
2020 28.37

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