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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Euro area was 33.07 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 33.07 in 2020 and a minimum value of 15.77 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 15.77
1961 16.04
1962 16.30
1963 16.55
1964 16.81
1965 17.08
1966 17.46
1967 17.82
1968 18.19
1969 18.55
1970 18.88
1971 19.24
1972 19.55
1973 19.81
1974 20.04
1975 20.24
1976 20.54
1977 20.81
1978 21.02
1979 21.07
1980 20.94
1981 20.75
1982 20.38
1983 19.95
1984 19.62
1985 19.46
1986 19.57
1987 19.82
1988 20.16
1989 20.52
1990 20.84
1991 21.22
1992 21.56
1993 21.88
1994 22.19
1995 22.48
1996 22.86
1997 23.20
1998 23.53
1999 23.88
2000 24.25
2001 24.62
2002 25.02
2003 25.41
2004 25.78
2005 26.09
2006 26.45
2007 26.74
2008 27.02
2009 27.33
2010 27.72
2011 28.18
2012 28.72
2013 29.32
2014 29.93
2015 30.53
2016 31.04
2017 31.53
2018 32.02
2019 32.52
2020 33.07

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