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

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Belgium was 26.74 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 37.70 in 1967 and a minimum value of 25.66 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 36.38
1961 37.04
1962 37.34
1963 37.41
1964 37.43
1965 37.50
1966 37.64
1967 37.70
1968 37.69
1969 37.59
1970 37.39
1971 37.01
1972 36.62
1973 36.17
1974 35.59
1975 34.88
1976 34.21
1977 33.41
1978 32.52
1979 31.64
1980 30.79
1981 29.99
1982 29.27
1983 28.64
1984 28.08
1985 27.61
1986 27.34
1987 27.10
1988 26.90
1989 26.77
1990 26.72
1991 26.68
1992 26.73
1993 26.84
1994 26.96
1995 27.03
1996 27.09
1997 27.06
1998 26.96
1999 26.86
2000 26.79
2001 26.60
2002 26.48
2003 26.39
2004 26.29
2005 26.16
2006 26.07
2007 25.94
2008 25.81
2009 25.71
2010 25.66
2011 25.77
2012 25.87
2013 25.98
2014 26.10
2015 26.22
2016 26.34
2017 26.46
2018 26.58
2019 26.68
2020 26.74

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