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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Sweden was 28.40 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 34.09 in 1960 and a minimum value of 25.29 in 2010.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, young, is the ratio of younger dependents--people younger than 15--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 34.09
1961 33.66
1962 33.06
1963 32.41
1964 31.87
1965 31.53
1966 31.43
1967 31.44
1968 31.56
1969 31.71
1970 31.83
1971 32.01
1972 32.17
1973 32.27
1974 32.31
1975 32.24
1976 32.08
1977 31.80
1978 31.44
1979 31.02
1980 30.57
1981 30.01
1982 29.48
1983 28.97
1984 28.51
1985 28.11
1986 27.89
1987 27.75
1988 27.71
1989 27.76
1990 27.90
1991 28.28
1992 28.67
1993 29.06
1994 29.39
1995 29.60
1996 29.72
1997 29.59
1998 29.28
1999 28.95
2000 28.66
2001 27.99
2002 27.63
2003 27.40
2004 27.10
2005 26.66
2006 26.58
2007 26.20
2008 25.71
2009 25.36
2010 25.29
2011 25.41
2012 25.76
2013 26.30
2014 26.89
2015 27.41
2016 27.70
2017 27.99
2018 28.21
2019 28.35
2020 28.40

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