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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Netherlands was 24.43 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 49.25 in 1960 and a minimum value of 24.43 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 49.25
1961 49.06
1962 48.33
1963 47.29
1964 46.33
1965 45.63
1966 45.21
1967 44.88
1968 44.63
1969 44.33
1970 43.89
1971 43.33
1972 42.64
1973 41.80
1974 40.84
1975 39.75
1976 38.62
1977 37.43
1978 36.19
1979 34.93
1980 33.68
1981 32.43
1982 31.28
1983 30.21
1984 29.23
1985 28.36
1986 27.80
1987 27.28
1988 26.85
1989 26.54
1990 26.36
1991 26.32
1992 26.37
1993 26.51
1994 26.68
1995 26.82
1996 26.98
1997 27.08
1998 27.13
1999 27.15
2000 27.18
2001 27.15
2002 27.18
2003 27.22
2004 27.21
2005 27.12
2006 27.07
2007 26.86
2008 26.57
2009 26.31
2010 26.14
2011 25.96
2012 25.89
2013 25.88
2014 25.82
2015 25.65
2016 25.48
2017 25.22
2018 24.90
2019 24.62
2020 24.43

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