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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Portugal was 20.34 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 47.15 in 1967 and a minimum value of 20.34 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 46.75
1961 46.66
1962 46.61
1963 46.63
1964 46.69
1965 46.72
1966 47.09
1967 47.15
1968 46.97
1969 46.74
1970 46.62
1971 45.94
1972 45.46
1973 45.13
1974 44.76
1975 44.24
1976 43.95
1977 43.41
1978 42.70
1979 41.95
1980 41.22
1981 40.33
1982 39.51
1983 38.72
1984 37.88
1985 36.93
1986 35.96
1987 34.87
1988 33.66
1989 32.41
1990 31.20
1991 30.09
1992 29.06
1993 28.11
1994 27.24
1995 26.42
1996 25.84
1997 25.23
1998 24.63
1999 24.10
2000 23.68
2001 23.39
2002 23.21
2003 23.12
2004 23.04
2005 22.92
2006 23.06
2007 23.09
2008 22.99
2009 22.80
2010 22.55
2011 22.37
2012 22.17
2013 21.98
2014 21.80
2015 21.62
2016 21.36
2017 21.10
2018 20.84
2019 20.58
2020 20.34

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