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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Belgium was 30.22 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 30.22 in 2020 and a minimum value of 18.38 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 18.38
1961 18.73
1962 19.03
1963 19.31
1964 19.57
1965 19.84
1966 20.22
1967 20.57
1968 20.88
1969 21.14
1970 21.33
1971 21.62
1972 21.82
1973 21.94
1974 22.01
1975 22.04
1976 22.23
1977 22.39
1978 22.46
1979 22.37
1980 22.08
1981 21.82
1982 21.38
1983 20.88
1984 20.51
1985 20.36
1986 20.57
1987 20.97
1988 21.47
1989 21.95
1990 22.35
1991 22.80
1992 23.17
1993 23.48
1994 23.77
1995 24.07
1996 24.47
1997 24.84
1998 25.18
1999 25.47
2000 25.72
2001 25.95
2002 26.13
2003 26.27
2004 26.35
2005 26.37
2006 26.40
2007 26.34
2008 26.25
2009 26.23
2010 26.35
2011 26.56
2012 26.87
2013 27.26
2014 27.64
2015 27.97
2016 28.43
2017 28.87
2018 29.29
2019 29.73
2020 30.22

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