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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Finland was 25.76 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 48.83 in 1960 and a minimum value of 24.94 in 2010.

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 48.83
1961 48.09
1962 46.75
1963 45.04
1964 43.36
1965 41.92
1966 40.83
1967 39.83
1968 38.93
1969 38.06
1970 37.18
1971 36.20
1972 35.24
1973 34.30
1974 33.44
1975 32.67
1976 31.90
1977 31.37
1978 30.94
1979 30.49
1980 29.99
1981 29.78
1982 29.39
1983 28.94
1984 28.62
1985 28.50
1986 28.35
1987 28.38
1988 28.50
1989 28.63
1990 28.71
1991 28.69
1992 28.72
1993 28.74
1994 28.68
1995 28.51
1996 28.46
1997 28.18
1998 27.77
1999 27.39
2000 27.12
2001 26.72
2002 26.51
2003 26.40
2004 26.26
2005 26.02
2006 25.82
2007 25.54
2008 25.25
2009 25.03
2010 24.94
2011 25.06
2012 25.24
2013 25.47
2014 25.70
2015 25.88
2016 25.98
2017 26.01
2018 25.98
2019 25.90
2020 25.76

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