Finland - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Finland was 62.39 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 62.39 in 2020 and 46.85 in 1984.

Definition: Age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents--people younger than 15 or 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 60.60
1961 60.02
1962 58.81
1963 57.21
1964 55.65
1965 54.35
1966 53.52
1967 52.79
1968 52.17
1969 51.60
1970 51.05
1971 50.48
1972 49.92
1973 49.39
1974 48.91
1975 48.49
1976 48.20
1977 48.12
1978 48.10
1979 47.99
1980 47.75
1981 47.73
1982 47.44
1983 47.07
1984 46.85
1985 46.89
1986 47.01
1987 47.35
1988 47.82
1989 48.28
1990 48.68
1991 49.01
1992 49.37
1993 49.69
1994 49.89
1995 49.92
1996 50.14
1997 50.06
1998 49.82
1999 49.62
2000 49.54
2001 49.45
2002 49.57
2003 49.80
2004 49.99
2005 50.07
2006 50.14
2007 50.10
2008 50.08
2009 50.32
2010 50.95
2011 52.02
2012 53.38
2013 54.92
2014 56.46
2015 57.83
2016 59.05
2017 60.08
2018 60.94
2019 61.70
2020 62.39

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

General Comments: Relevance to gender indicator: this indicator implies the dependency burden that the working-age population bears in relation to children and the elderly. Many times single or widowed women who are the sole caregiver of a household have a high dependency

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population