Euro area - Population ages 65 and above (% of total population)

Population ages 65 and above (% of total population) in Euro area was 21.13 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 21.13 in 2020, while its lowest value was 10.20 in 1960.

Definition: Population ages 65 and above as a percentage of the total population. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on age/sex distributions of United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision.

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Year Value
1960 10.20
1961 10.33
1962 10.47
1963 10.61
1964 10.76
1965 10.91
1966 11.11
1967 11.31
1968 11.51
1969 11.71
1970 11.90
1971 12.11
1972 12.30
1973 12.48
1974 12.64
1975 12.79
1976 13.01
1977 13.22
1978 13.40
1979 13.51
1980 13.52
1981 13.49
1982 13.37
1983 13.20
1984 13.09
1985 13.06
1986 13.17
1987 13.36
1988 13.61
1989 13.85
1990 14.08
1991 14.33
1992 14.56
1993 14.77
1994 14.97
1995 15.17
1996 15.41
1997 15.63
1998 15.85
1999 16.07
2000 16.31
2001 16.54
2002 16.79
2003 17.03
2004 17.25
2005 17.44
2006 17.64
2007 17.81
2008 17.96
2009 18.14
2010 18.36
2011 18.59
2012 18.88
2013 19.20
2014 19.52
2015 19.83
2016 20.10
2017 20.35
2018 20.60
2019 20.85
2020 21.13

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. This indicator is used for calculating age dependency ratio (percent of working-age population). The age dependency ratio is the ratio of the sum of the population aged 0-14 and the population aged 65 and above to the population aged 15-64. In many developing countries, the once rapidly growing population group of the under-15 population is shrinking. As a result, high fertility rates, together with declining mortality rates, are now reflected in the larger share of the 65 and older population.

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: 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. Total population is based on the de facto population including all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The values shown are midyear estimates. For more information see metadata for total population (SP.POP.TOTL).

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population