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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Portugal was 55.83 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 62.41 in 1970 and 47.71 in 2000.

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 59.55
1961 59.68
1962 59.82
1963 60.01
1964 60.28
1965 60.57
1966 61.30
1967 61.75
1968 61.97
1969 62.14
1970 62.41
1971 61.99
1972 61.76
1973 61.67
1974 61.54
1975 61.27
1976 61.29
1977 61.06
1978 60.65
1979 60.16
1980 59.63
1981 58.90
1982 58.18
1983 57.47
1984 56.73
1985 55.95
1986 55.28
1987 54.54
1988 53.70
1989 52.82
1990 51.98
1991 51.19
1992 50.46
1993 49.81
1994 49.25
1995 48.75
1996 48.48
1997 48.20
1998 47.94
1999 47.76
2000 47.71
2001 47.74
2002 47.88
2003 48.09
2004 48.31
2005 48.46
2006 49.08
2007 49.57
2008 49.95
2009 50.29
2010 50.67
2011 51.15
2012 51.68
2013 52.25
2014 52.87
2015 53.49
2016 53.94
2017 54.38
2018 54.83
2019 55.30
2020 55.83

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