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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Portugal was 35.49 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 35.49 in 2020 and a minimum value of 12.81 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.

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Year Value
1960 12.81
1961 13.02
1962 13.21
1963 13.39
1964 13.60
1965 13.85
1966 14.22
1967 14.60
1968 15.00
1969 15.40
1970 15.79
1971 16.05
1972 16.30
1973 16.54
1974 16.78
1975 17.04
1976 17.34
1977 17.65
1978 17.95
1979 18.21
1980 18.40
1981 18.57
1982 18.67
1983 18.75
1984 18.85
1985 19.03
1986 19.33
1987 19.67
1988 20.04
1989 20.41
1990 20.78
1991 21.10
1992 21.40
1993 21.70
1994 22.01
1995 22.33
1996 22.64
1997 22.96
1998 23.31
1999 23.66
2000 24.03
2001 24.36
2002 24.67
2003 24.98
2004 25.27
2005 25.54
2006 26.01
2007 26.47
2008 26.95
2009 27.49
2010 28.12
2011 28.78
2012 29.50
2013 30.27
2014 31.07
2015 31.87
2016 32.58
2017 33.28
2018 33.99
2019 34.72
2020 35.49

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