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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Central Europe and the Baltics was 23.36 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 45.88 in 1960 and a minimum value of 21.51 in 2010.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, young, is the ratio of younger dependents--people younger than 15--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 45.88
1961 45.67
1962 45.12
1963 44.31
1964 43.39
1965 42.47
1966 41.37
1967 40.47
1968 39.67
1969 38.83
1970 37.92
1971 37.45
1972 36.80
1973 36.13
1974 35.67
1975 35.51
1976 35.57
1977 35.92
1978 36.42
1979 36.85
1980 37.07
1981 37.30
1982 37.27
1983 37.05
1984 36.84
1985 36.70
1986 36.40
1987 36.24
1988 36.09
1989 35.79
1990 35.24
1991 34.79
1992 34.05
1993 33.12
1994 32.16
1995 31.26
1996 30.30
1997 29.43
1998 28.60
1999 27.75
2000 26.84
2001 25.93
2002 25.03
2003 24.15
2004 23.35
2005 22.68
2006 22.23
2007 21.91
2008 21.71
2009 21.59
2010 21.51
2011 21.60
2012 21.62
2013 21.63
2014 21.72
2015 21.95
2016 22.05
2017 22.37
2018 22.79
2019 23.15
2020 23.36

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