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

The value for Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in France was 33.69 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 33.69 in 2020 and a minimum value of 18.80 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.

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Year Value
1960 18.80
1961 18.96
1962 19.09
1963 19.19
1964 19.30
1965 19.42
1966 19.70
1967 19.97
1968 20.22
1969 20.44
1970 20.62
1971 20.90
1972 21.12
1973 21.30
1974 21.44
1975 21.55
1976 21.78
1977 22.01
1978 22.15
1979 22.11
1980 21.86
1981 21.50
1982 20.94
1983 20.33
1984 19.86
1985 19.63
1986 19.74
1987 20.05
1988 20.48
1989 20.92
1990 21.30
1991 21.76
1992 22.16
1993 22.53
1994 22.88
1995 23.22
1996 23.58
1997 23.92
1998 24.21
1999 24.47
2000 24.69
2001 24.88
2002 25.04
2003 25.17
2004 25.26
2005 25.33
2006 25.40
2007 25.43
2008 25.48
2009 25.66
2010 26.06
2011 26.62
2012 27.37
2013 28.27
2014 29.20
2015 30.08
2016 30.87
2017 31.61
2018 32.31
2019 32.99
2020 33.69

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