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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Central Europe and the Baltics was 29.77 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 29.77 in 2020 and a minimum value of 11.34 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 11.34
1961 11.64
1962 11.95
1963 12.26
1964 12.57
1965 12.88
1966 13.20
1967 13.50
1968 13.79
1969 14.08
1970 14.39
1971 14.75
1972 15.09
1973 15.41
1974 15.74
1975 16.08
1976 16.47
1977 16.88
1978 17.23
1979 17.41
1980 17.35
1981 17.12
1982 16.67
1983 16.14
1984 15.71
1985 15.49
1986 15.61
1987 15.88
1988 16.24
1989 16.58
1990 16.85
1991 17.25
1992 17.60
1993 17.89
1994 18.15
1995 18.39
1996 18.74
1997 19.05
1998 19.32
1999 19.55
2000 19.74
2001 20.04
2002 20.31
2003 20.55
2004 20.72
2005 20.83
2006 21.00
2007 21.11
2008 21.20
2009 21.36
2010 21.63
2011 22.12
2012 22.70
2013 23.37
2014 24.11
2015 24.90
2016 25.82
2017 26.80
2018 27.80
2019 28.80
2020 29.77

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