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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Switzerland was 28.96 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 28.96 in 2020 and a minimum value of 15.55 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 15.55
1961 15.68
1962 15.78
1963 15.86
1964 15.92
1965 15.99
1966 16.26
1967 16.52
1968 16.79
1969 17.06
1970 17.32
1971 17.73
1972 18.12
1973 18.48
1974 18.81
1975 19.12
1976 19.60
1977 20.05
1978 20.45
1979 20.75
1980 20.95
1981 20.94
1982 20.83
1983 20.67
1984 20.56
1985 20.54
1986 20.64
1987 20.81
1988 21.01
1989 21.19
1990 21.33
1991 21.48
1992 21.58
1993 21.64
1994 21.68
1995 21.70
1996 21.93
1997 22.16
1998 22.36
1999 22.54
2000 22.69
2001 22.81
2002 22.89
2003 22.97
2004 23.08
2005 23.24
2006 23.45
2007 23.71
2008 24.02
2009 24.39
2010 24.82
2011 25.17
2012 25.56
2013 25.99
2014 26.40
2015 26.78
2016 27.23
2017 27.63
2018 28.02
2019 28.45
2020 28.96

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