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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Sweden was 32.76 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 32.76 in 2020 and a minimum value of 17.87 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 17.87
1961 18.12
1962 18.35
1963 18.59
1964 18.83
1965 19.10
1966 19.45
1967 19.80
1968 20.16
1969 20.54
1970 20.93
1971 21.48
1972 22.03
1973 22.57
1974 23.09
1975 23.59
1976 24.06
1977 24.49
1978 24.87
1979 25.19
1980 25.47
1981 25.80
1982 26.07
1983 26.28
1984 26.50
1985 26.75
1986 27.00
1987 27.25
1988 27.48
1989 27.65
1990 27.74
1991 27.82
1992 27.83
1993 27.76
1994 27.65
1995 27.51
1996 27.45
1997 27.35
1998 27.22
1999 27.08
2000 26.92
2001 26.78
2002 26.63
2003 26.50
2004 26.45
2005 26.51
2006 26.66
2007 26.86
2008 27.13
2009 27.47
2010 27.91
2011 28.47
2012 29.14
2013 29.86
2014 30.53
2015 31.08
2016 31.61
2017 31.98
2018 32.24
2019 32.49
2020 32.76

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