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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Spain was 30.44 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 30.44 in 2020 and a minimum value of 12.75 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 12.75
1961 12.95
1962 13.13
1963 13.30
1964 13.50
1965 13.75
1966 14.08
1967 14.43
1968 14.80
1969 15.16
1970 15.48
1971 15.74
1972 15.96
1973 16.14
1974 16.31
1975 16.48
1976 16.75
1977 17.02
1978 17.26
1979 17.46
1980 17.61
1981 17.77
1982 17.88
1983 17.97
1984 18.10
1985 18.30
1986 18.59
1987 18.92
1988 19.30
1989 19.70
1990 20.10
1991 20.48
1992 20.86
1993 21.24
1994 21.66
1995 22.13
1996 22.56
1997 23.03
1998 23.51
1999 23.94
2000 24.30
2001 24.32
2002 24.27
2003 24.19
2004 24.13
2005 24.14
2006 24.24
2007 24.36
2008 24.54
2009 24.76
2010 25.02
2011 25.59
2012 26.18
2013 26.80
2014 27.43
2015 28.06
2016 28.51
2017 28.94
2018 29.38
2019 29.87
2020 30.44

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