European Union - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in European Union was 23.51 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 40.60 in 1961 and a minimum value of 23.01 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 40.46
1961 40.60
1962 40.55
1963 40.36
1964 40.15
1965 39.95
1966 39.82
1967 39.70
1968 39.56
1969 39.37
1970 39.11
1971 38.86
1972 38.51
1973 38.08
1974 37.63
1975 37.18
1976 36.73
1977 36.29
1978 35.83
1979 35.27
1980 34.59
1981 33.96
1982 33.23
1983 32.46
1984 31.75
1985 31.13
1986 30.62
1987 30.18
1988 29.79
1989 29.39
1990 28.97
1991 28.62
1992 28.23
1993 27.82
1994 27.42
1995 27.02
1996 26.60
1997 26.20
1998 25.82
1999 25.44
2000 25.05
2001 24.69
2002 24.33
2003 24.00
2004 23.70
2005 23.43
2006 23.30
2007 23.19
2008 23.12
2009 23.06
2010 23.01
2011 23.10
2012 23.12
2013 23.13
2014 23.16
2015 23.21
2016 23.23
2017 23.31
2018 23.42
2019 23.50
2020 23.51

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