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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Austria was 21.71 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 40.03 in 1971 and a minimum value of 21.06 in 2015.

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 33.88
1961 34.45
1962 34.96
1963 35.50
1964 36.13
1965 36.87
1966 37.61
1967 38.40
1968 39.15
1969 39.72
1970 40.01
1971 40.03
1972 39.75
1973 39.21
1974 38.48
1975 37.61
1976 36.57
1977 35.51
1978 34.39
1979 33.18
1980 31.92
1981 30.75
1982 29.60
1983 28.52
1984 27.56
1985 26.75
1986 26.24
1987 25.72
1988 25.26
1989 24.95
1990 24.84
1991 24.94
1992 25.29
1993 25.79
1994 26.21
1995 26.41
1996 26.39
1997 26.10
1998 25.63
1999 25.17
2000 24.83
2001 24.46
2002 24.23
2003 24.06
2004 23.85
2005 23.55
2006 23.27
2007 22.90
2008 22.48
2009 22.11
2010 21.81
2011 21.54
2012 21.33
2013 21.19
2014 21.10
2015 21.06
2016 21.18
2017 21.30
2018 21.44
2019 21.58
2020 21.71

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