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Projected old-age dependency ratio (base 2024)

Projected old-age dependency ratio (base 2024)
Catalonia Spain European Union-27
2070 51.6 59.5 54.1
2065 50.9 58.5 53.4
2060 50.3 59.0 53.0
2055 49.6 59.5 52.1
2050 48.4 59.0 50.4
2045 45.7 55.3 48.2
2040 40.5 48.4 45.4
2035 35.5 41.7 42.0
2030 31.6 36.2 38.0
2025 29.4 31.9 34.4
Units: Population aged 65 and over for every 100 people aged between 15 and 64.
Source Catalonia: Idescat. Source Spain and European Union: Eurostat.

Last update: October 28, 2021. Revised series on April 7, 2022.

PROJ

These statistics have a specific section with all the information available: Population Projections (PROJ).

Methodological note

The Projected old-age dependency ratio is the quotient between the number of people aged 65 or over and the number of people aged between 15 and 64. It is one of the classic measurements of the structure by age and the ageing of the population.

Data for Catalonia have been calculated upon the information by age in the Population Projections (base 2024) carried out by Idescat. Data for the European Unio use 2022 population as base population.

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