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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Norway was 26.46 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 41.13 in 1960 and a minimum value of 26.46 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 41.13
1961 41.10
1962 40.67
1963 40.03
1964 39.47
1965 39.14
1966 38.90
1967 38.90
1968 39.05
1969 39.14
1970 39.09
1971 39.16
1972 39.02
1973 38.73
1974 38.41
1975 38.06
1976 37.58
1977 37.07
1978 36.50
1979 35.86
1980 35.15
1981 34.27
1982 33.44
1983 32.65
1984 31.87
1985 31.13
1986 30.63
1987 30.13
1988 29.70
1989 29.40
1990 29.24
1991 29.29
1992 29.43
1993 29.65
1994 29.90
1995 30.15
1996 30.38
1997 30.58
1998 30.74
1999 30.83
2000 30.86
2001 30.77
2002 30.61
2003 30.39
2004 30.15
2005 29.91
2006 29.56
2007 29.25
2008 28.96
2009 28.67
2010 28.37
2011 28.21
2012 27.97
2013 27.71
2014 27.50
2015 27.33
2016 27.14
2017 26.98
2018 26.83
2019 26.66
2020 26.46

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