Population
Dependency ratio
SP.POP.DPND · %
Annual series published by the World Bank, compared across Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, United States, China, Peru, Norway. The chart carries the trajectory, the table carries the year by year figures, and the definition at the foot of the page is the World Bank's own, quoted as it stands.
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World Bank definition
Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)
Age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents--people younger than 15 or 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.
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The same indicator across Europe & Central Asia
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