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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in Denmark was 31.73 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 31.73 in 2020 and a minimum value of 16.52 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 16.52
1961 16.75
1962 16.96
1963 17.17
1964 17.37
1965 17.59
1966 17.89
1967 18.19
1968 18.48
1969 18.78
1970 19.09
1971 19.50
1972 19.90
1973 20.28
1974 20.64
1975 20.96
1976 21.33
1977 21.64
1978 21.91
1979 22.12
1980 22.28
1981 22.46
1982 22.56
1983 22.62
1984 22.66
1985 22.72
1986 22.86
1987 22.99
1988 23.10
1989 23.16
1990 23.16
1991 23.14
1992 23.05
1993 22.92
1994 22.77
1995 22.61
1996 22.57
1997 22.51
1998 22.44
1999 22.36
2000 22.28
2001 22.36
2002 22.43
2003 22.53
2004 22.68
2005 22.92
2006 23.32
2007 23.78
2008 24.30
2009 24.87
2010 25.49
2011 26.14
2012 26.93
2013 27.87
2014 28.84
2015 29.71
2016 30.36
2017 30.79
2018 31.09
2019 31.38
2020 31.73

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