Euro area - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Euro area was 23.40 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 39.86 in 1969 and a minimum value of 23.29 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 38.92
1961 39.19
1962 39.33
1963 39.38
1964 39.42
1965 39.47
1966 39.66
1967 39.79
1968 39.86
1969 39.86
1970 39.81
1971 39.61
1972 39.34
1973 38.99
1974 38.53
1975 37.97
1976 37.33
1977 36.62
1978 35.81
1979 34.92
1980 33.95
1981 33.04
1982 32.09
1983 31.16
1984 30.31
1985 29.55
1986 28.98
1987 28.46
1988 27.99
1989 27.56
1990 27.17
1991 26.85
1992 26.56
1993 26.29
1994 26.03
1995 25.76
1996 25.47
1997 25.20
1998 24.92
1999 24.66
2000 24.42
2001 24.21
2002 24.00
2003 23.81
2004 23.64
2005 23.49
2006 23.45
2007 23.40
2008 23.36
2009 23.33
2010 23.29
2011 23.38
2012 23.41
2013 23.41
2014 23.40
2015 23.41
2016 23.39
2017 23.40
2018 23.42
2019 23.43
2020 23.40

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