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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Switzerland was 22.68 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 37.23 in 1962 and a minimum value of 21.90 in 2013.

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 36.72
1961 37.12
1962 37.23
1963 37.13
1964 36.94
1965 36.70
1966 36.73
1967 36.72
1968 36.68
1969 36.59
1970 36.42
1971 36.37
1972 36.20
1973 35.90
1974 35.46
1975 34.86
1976 34.13
1977 33.31
1978 32.37
1979 31.33
1980 30.26
1981 29.29
1982 28.36
1983 27.50
1984 26.75
1985 26.12
1986 25.78
1987 25.44
1988 25.14
1989 24.95
1990 24.92
1991 25.01
1992 25.25
1993 25.59
1994 25.89
1995 26.07
1996 26.25
1997 26.31
1998 26.24
1999 26.10
2000 25.92
2001 25.59
2002 25.23
2003 24.83
2004 24.41
2005 23.98
2006 23.54
2007 23.12
2008 22.74
2009 22.40
2010 22.13
2011 22.02
2012 21.93
2013 21.90
2014 21.93
2015 22.01
2016 22.16
2017 22.30
2018 22.43
2019 22.56
2020 22.68

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