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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Greece was 21.32 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 41.96 in 1961 and a minimum value of 21.32 in 2020.

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 41.69
1961 41.96
1962 41.65
1963 41.01
1964 40.49
1965 40.31
1966 39.94
1967 40.04
1968 40.41
1969 40.75
1970 40.89
1971 40.92
1972 40.59
1973 40.04
1974 39.53
1975 39.18
1976 38.60
1977 38.25
1978 37.99
1979 37.60
1980 37.01
1981 36.70
1982 36.14
1983 35.43
1984 34.71
1985 34.00
1986 33.20
1987 32.33
1988 31.39
1989 30.40
1990 29.41
1991 28.36
1992 27.45
1993 26.60
1994 25.72
1995 24.80
1996 24.30
1997 23.67
1998 23.01
1999 22.44
2000 22.03
2001 21.85
2002 21.78
2003 21.81
2004 21.85
2005 21.87
2006 22.05
2007 22.28
2008 22.51
2009 22.72
2010 22.88
2011 22.96
2012 22.90
2013 22.77
2014 22.63
2015 22.53
2016 22.25
2017 22.06
2018 21.89
2019 21.66
2020 21.32

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