Central Europe and the Baltics - Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

The latest value for Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) in Central Europe and the Baltics was 53.17 as of 2020. Over the past 60 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between 57.53 in 1961 and 42.97 in 2008.

Definition: Age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents--people younger than 15 or 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 57.41
1961 57.53
1962 57.29
1963 56.77
1964 56.14
1965 55.52
1966 54.72
1967 54.09
1968 53.56
1969 52.99
1970 52.38
1971 52.25
1972 51.93
1973 51.58
1974 51.44
1975 51.62
1976 52.08
1977 52.84
1978 53.72
1979 54.33
1980 54.49
1981 54.49
1982 53.99
1983 53.23
1984 52.58
1985 52.23
1986 52.04
1987 52.15
1988 52.36
1989 52.40
1990 52.12
1991 52.07
1992 51.67
1993 51.03
1994 50.33
1995 49.67
1996 49.06
1997 48.50
1998 47.94
1999 47.31
2000 46.59
2001 46.00
2002 45.38
2003 44.73
2004 44.11
2005 43.55
2006 43.27
2007 43.07
2008 42.97
2009 43.01
2010 43.20
2011 43.78
2012 44.38
2013 45.06
2014 45.90
2015 46.92
2016 47.94
2017 49.22
2018 50.65
2019 52.00
2020 53.17

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

General Comments: Relevance to gender indicator: this indicator implies the dependency burden that the working-age population bears in relation to children and the elderly. Many times single or widowed women who are the sole caregiver of a household have a high dependency

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population