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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Germany was 21.68 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 37.03 in 1969 and a minimum value of 20.16 in 2015.

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 31.98
1961 32.49
1962 33.24
1963 34.09
1964 34.86
1965 35.46
1966 36.17
1967 36.64
1968 36.91
1969 37.03
1970 36.98
1971 36.84
1972 36.40
1973 35.74
1974 34.96
1975 34.11
1976 32.88
1977 31.83
1978 30.80
1979 29.61
1980 28.23
1981 27.20
1982 25.94
1983 24.65
1984 23.61
1985 22.93
1986 22.59
1987 22.52
1988 22.66
1989 22.88
1990 23.07
1991 23.32
1992 23.51
1993 23.64
1994 23.74
1995 23.82
1996 23.65
1997 23.56
1998 23.47
1999 23.33
2000 23.10
2001 22.92
2002 22.61
2003 22.24
2004 21.89
2005 21.61
2006 21.31
2007 21.09
2008 20.93
2009 20.77
2010 20.60
2011 20.54
2012 20.42
2013 20.28
2014 20.18
2015 20.16
2016 20.36
2017 20.64
2018 20.98
2019 21.35
2020 21.68

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