Belgium | 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. 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.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Kingdom of Belgium
Records
63
Source
Belgium | Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)
55.42533292 1960
56.029917 1961
56.45531139 1962
56.81311699 1963
57.25569152 1964
57.76764596 1965
58.24905697 1966
58.63968768 1967
58.78251872 1968
58.78337037 1969
58.75740223 1970
58.6670225 1971
58.47114606 1972
58.09765821 1973
57.50783073 1974
56.79878154 1975
56.00124569 1976
55.26774418 1977
54.60694743 1978
53.88883993 1979
53.04448442 1980
51.96800389 1981
50.75963327 1982
49.5475798 1983
48.65401921 1984
48.31952667 1985
48.27273893 1986
48.31733688 1987
48.53537976 1988
48.89088788 1989
49.36856081 1990
49.90671741 1991
50.37753974 1992
50.74803169 1993
51.03606956 1994
51.3324581 1995
51.64268023 1996
51.93448037 1997
52.16703253 1998
52.32971045 1999
52.46169588 2000
52.53102053 2001
52.5222714 2002
52.47776125 2003
52.4358552 2004
52.27602044 2005
51.89607318 2006
51.51394164 2007
51.40705731 2008
51.56422254 2009
51.81761686 2010
52.25903666 2011
52.82325063 2012
53.33853283 2013
53.859121 2014
54.30757561 2015
54.68678353 2016
55.10499748 2017
55.5495903 2018
55.97237863 2019
56.2527202 2020
56.50721912 2021
56.89401536 2022
Belgium | 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. 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.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Kingdom of Belgium
Records
63
Source