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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Luxembourg was 20.54 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 21.54 in 2005 and a minimum value of 15.92 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 15.92
1961 16.24
1962 16.54
1963 16.83
1964 17.12
1965 17.41
1966 17.85
1967 18.26
1968 18.63
1969 18.97
1970 19.26
1971 19.54
1972 19.74
1973 19.88
1974 19.95
1975 19.97
1976 20.19
1977 20.37
1978 20.45
1979 20.40
1980 20.18
1981 20.10
1982 19.87
1983 19.57
1984 19.30
1985 19.12
1986 19.05
1987 19.05
1988 19.10
1989 19.20
1990 19.35
1991 19.59
1992 19.87
1993 20.15
1994 20.38
1995 20.56
1996 20.77
1997 20.90
1998 20.97
1999 21.00
2000 21.01
2001 21.19
2002 21.34
2003 21.45
2004 21.51
2005 21.54
2006 21.31
2007 21.06
2008 20.81
2009 20.61
2010 20.47
2011 20.33
2012 20.23
2013 20.16
2014 20.12
2015 20.10
2016 20.14
2017 20.20
2018 20.28
2019 20.39
2020 20.54

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