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Values for 2025
Portugal, 2025
60.4 per 100 working-age people
+12.0 per 100 working-age people since 2001
European Union, 2025
57.9 per 100 working-age people
aggregate · +9.5 per 100 working-age people since 2001
Spain, 2025
52.1 per 100 working-age people
+6.2 per 100 working-age people since 2001
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Dependants per 100 people aged 15 to 64. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | Portugal | Spain | European Union |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60.4 per 100 working-age people | 52.1 per 100 working-age people | 57.9 per 100 working-age people |
| 2024 | 59.6 per 100 working-age people | 51.7 per 100 working-age people | 57.4 per 100 working-age people |
| 2023 | 58.7 per 100 working-age people | 51.3 per 100 working-age people | 56.9 per 100 working-age people |
| 2022 | 58.0 per 100 working-age people | 51.0 per 100 working-age people | 56.5 per 100 working-age people |
| 2021 | 57.3 per 100 working-age people | 50.9 per 100 working-age people | 56.1 per 100 working-age people |
| 2020 | 56.7 per 100 working-age people | 51.0 per 100 working-age people | 55.6 per 100 working-age people |
| 2019 | 56.1 per 100 working-age people | 51.1 per 100 working-age people | 55.1 per 100 working-age people |
| 2018 | 55.4 per 100 working-age people | 51.2 per 100 working-age people | 54.5 per 100 working-age people |
| 2017 | 54.8 per 100 working-age people | 51.1 per 100 working-age people | 53.9 per 100 working-age people |
| 2016 | 54.1 per 100 working-age people | 50.8 per 100 working-age people | 53.2 per 100 working-age people |
| 2015 | 53.5 per 100 working-age people | 50.5 per 100 working-age people | 52.6 per 100 working-age people |
| 2014 | 53.1 per 100 working-age people | 49.9 per 100 working-age people | 52.0 per 100 working-age people |
| 2013 | 52.5 per 100 working-age people | 49.1 per 100 working-age people | 51.3 per 100 working-age people |
| 2012 | 51.8 per 100 working-age people | 48.2 per 100 working-age people | 50.6 per 100 working-age people |
| 2011 | 51.3 per 100 working-age people | 47.4 per 100 working-age people | 50.0 per 100 working-age people |
| 2010 | 50.8 per 100 working-age people | 46.7 per 100 working-age people | 49.6 per 100 working-age people |
| 2009 | 50.5 per 100 working-age people | 45.8 per 100 working-age people | 49.3 per 100 working-age people |
| 2008 | 50.1 per 100 working-age people | 45.2 per 100 working-age people | 49.0 per 100 working-age people |
| 2007 | 50.0 per 100 working-age people | 45.0 per 100 working-age people | 48.8 per 100 working-age people |
| 2006 | 49.8 per 100 working-age people | 45.1 per 100 working-age people | 48.7 per 100 working-age people |
| 2005 | 49.7 per 100 working-age people | 45.0 per 100 working-age people | 48.6 per 100 working-age people |
| 2004 | 49.4 per 100 working-age people | 45.2 per 100 working-age people | 48.5 per 100 working-age people |
| 2003 | 49.0 per 100 working-age people | 45.7 per 100 working-age people | 48.5 per 100 working-age people |
| 2002 | 48.7 per 100 working-age people | 46.0 per 100 working-age people | 48.5 per 100 working-age people |
| 2001 | 48.4 per 100 working-age people | 45.9 per 100 working-age people | 48.5 per 100 working-age people |
A dash means no value was published for that period.