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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Luxembourg was 22.21 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 34.35 in 1968 and a minimum value of 22.21 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 31.15
1961 31.81
1962 32.43
1963 32.98
1964 33.40
1965 33.68
1966 34.05
1967 34.29
1968 34.35
1969 34.26
1970 34.02
1971 33.66
1972 33.11
1973 32.44
1974 31.71
1975 30.97
1976 30.25
1977 29.63
1978 29.06
1979 28.44
1980 27.75
1981 27.09
1982 26.37
1983 25.66
1984 25.09
1985 24.73
1986 24.55
1987 24.50
1988 24.59
1989 24.78
1990 25.06
1991 25.40
1992 25.81
1993 26.29
1994 26.79
1995 27.25
1996 27.63
1997 27.90
1998 28.07
1999 28.20
2000 28.28
2001 28.30
2002 28.26
2003 28.17
2004 28.01
2005 27.81
2006 27.38
2007 26.93
2008 26.51
2009 26.14
2010 25.81
2011 25.35
2012 24.89
2013 24.44
2014 23.97
2015 23.52
2016 23.29
2017 23.01
2018 22.70
2019 22.43
2020 22.21

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