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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Denmark was 25.62 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 39.27 in 1960 and a minimum value of 25.28 in 1990.

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 39.27
1961 38.84
1962 38.26
1963 37.63
1964 37.09
1965 36.71
1966 36.54
1967 36.40
1968 36.30
1969 36.23
1970 36.16
1971 36.05
1972 35.97
1973 35.86
1974 35.65
1975 35.29
1976 34.91
1977 34.38
1978 33.73
1979 32.99
1980 32.18
1981 31.31
1982 30.38
1983 29.43
1984 28.51
1985 27.69
1986 26.93
1987 26.35
1988 25.92
1989 25.57
1990 25.28
1991 25.29
1992 25.29
1993 25.35
1994 25.51
1995 25.77
1996 26.16
1997 26.55
1998 26.96
1999 27.35
2000 27.70
2001 27.88
2002 28.07
2003 28.23
2004 28.32
2005 28.32
2006 28.24
2007 28.11
2008 27.93
2009 27.71
2010 27.45
2011 27.33
2012 27.05
2013 26.72
2014 26.45
2015 26.27
2016 25.94
2017 25.83
2018 25.83
2019 25.77
2020 25.62

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