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

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Sweden was 61.17 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 61.17 in 2020 and 50.64 in 1965.

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.

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Year Value
1960 51.96
1961 51.78
1962 51.42
1963 51.00
1964 50.71
1965 50.64
1966 50.88
1967 51.24
1968 51.72
1969 52.25
1970 52.76
1971 53.49
1972 54.20
1973 54.85
1974 55.40
1975 55.83
1976 56.14
1977 56.29
1978 56.31
1979 56.21
1980 56.03
1981 55.82
1982 55.55
1983 55.26
1984 55.01
1985 54.86
1986 54.89
1987 55.00
1988 55.19
1989 55.41
1990 55.64
1991 56.11
1992 56.50
1993 56.82
1994 57.04
1995 57.11
1996 57.16
1997 56.94
1998 56.51
1999 56.02
2000 55.58
2001 54.78
2002 54.26
2003 53.90
2004 53.55
2005 53.17
2006 53.23
2007 53.06
2008 52.83
2009 52.83
2010 53.20
2011 53.88
2012 54.89
2013 56.16
2014 57.42
2015 58.49
2016 59.31
2017 59.97
2018 60.46
2019 60.83
2020 61.17

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