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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in France was 28.66 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 42.83 in 1961 and a minimum value of 28.43 in 2006.

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 42.53
1961 42.83
1962 42.65
1963 42.12
1964 41.54
1965 41.05
1966 40.83
1967 40.57
1968 40.30
1969 40.05
1970 39.81
1971 39.56
1972 39.38
1973 39.21
1974 38.91
1975 38.43
1976 38.05
1977 37.44
1978 36.67
1979 35.90
1980 35.22
1981 34.36
1982 33.74
1983 33.25
1984 32.76
1985 32.20
1986 31.97
1987 31.57
1988 31.10
1989 30.72
1990 30.48
1991 30.23
1992 30.13
1993 30.11
1994 30.07
1995 29.96
1996 29.82
1997 29.67
1998 29.48
1999 29.28
2000 29.07
2001 28.99
2002 28.86
2003 28.70
2004 28.56
2005 28.44
2006 28.43
2007 28.43
2008 28.46
2009 28.51
2010 28.57
2011 28.72
2012 28.89
2013 29.06
2014 29.18
2015 29.24
2016 29.21
2017 29.11
2018 28.96
2019 28.80
2020 28.66

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