Poland - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Poland was 51.42 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 65.13 in 1961 and 40.23 in 2010.

Definition: Age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents--people younger than 15 or 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 64.61
1961 65.13
1962 64.85
1963 63.97
1964 62.87
1965 61.76
1966 60.19
1967 58.86
1968 57.63
1969 56.31
1970 54.89
1971 53.91
1972 52.80
1973 51.71
1974 50.87
1975 50.40
1976 50.44
1977 50.74
1978 51.21
1979 51.68
1980 52.06
1981 52.43
1982 52.70
1983 52.92
1984 53.15
1985 53.40
1986 53.78
1987 54.04
1988 54.15
1989 54.14
1990 54.01
1991 53.69
1992 53.38
1993 52.99
1994 52.38
1995 51.50
1996 50.78
1997 49.73
1998 48.50
1999 47.27
2000 46.16
2001 45.21
2002 44.41
2003 43.71
2004 42.99
2005 42.22
2006 41.58
2007 41.00
2008 40.52
2009 40.26
2010 40.23
2011 40.72
2012 41.28
2013 41.98
2014 42.89
2015 44.04
2016 45.19
2017 46.65
2018 48.30
2019 49.93
2020 51.42

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

General Comments: Relevance to gender indicator: this indicator implies the dependency burden that the working-age population bears in relation to children and the elderly. Many times single or widowed women who are the sole caregiver of a household have a high dependency

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population