Age dependency ratio in Europe and Central Asia
In 2025, Europe and Central Asia had 55.7 people under 15 or over 64 for every 100 people aged 15 to 64. The value for 2025 is the highest since 1980.
Europe and Central Asia is a group: World Bank region. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
Europe and Central Asia, 2025
55.7
Change from 2024
+0.4per 100 working-age people
World, 2025
54.5 per 100 working-age people
Age dependency ratio in Europe and Central Asia over time
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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 | Europe and Central Asia | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55.7 per 100 working-age people | 54.5 per 100 working-age people |
| 2024 | 55.3 per 100 working-age people | 54.7 per 100 working-age people |
| 2023 | 54.8 per 100 working-age people | 55.0 per 100 working-age people |
| 2022 | 54.4 per 100 working-age people | 55.2 per 100 working-age people |
| 2021 | 53.9 per 100 working-age people | 55.3 per 100 working-age people |
| 2020 | 53.4 per 100 working-age people | 55.4 per 100 working-age people |
| 2019 | 52.8 per 100 working-age people | 55.4 per 100 working-age people |
| 2018 | 52.1 per 100 working-age people | 55.4 per 100 working-age people |
| 2017 | 51.4 per 100 working-age people | 55.3 per 100 working-age people |
| 2016 | 50.7 per 100 working-age people | 55.2 per 100 working-age people |
| 2015 | 50.0 per 100 working-age people | 55.1 per 100 working-age people |
| 2014 | 49.2 per 100 working-age people | 55.0 per 100 working-age people |
| 2013 | 48.6 per 100 working-age people | 55.0 per 100 working-age people |
| 2012 | 48.0 per 100 working-age people | 55.0 per 100 working-age people |
| 2011 | 47.5 per 100 working-age people | 55.0 per 100 working-age people |
| 2010 | 47.4 per 100 working-age people | 55.2 per 100 working-age people |
| 2009 | 47.4 per 100 working-age people | 55.5 per 100 working-age people |
| 2008 | 47.5 per 100 working-age people | 55.8 per 100 working-age people |
| 2007 | 47.7 per 100 working-age people | 56.2 per 100 working-age people |
| 2006 | 47.9 per 100 working-age people | 56.7 per 100 working-age people |
| 2005 | 48.1 per 100 working-age people | 57.3 per 100 working-age people |
| 2004 | 48.3 per 100 working-age people | 58.0 per 100 working-age people |
| 2003 | 48.5 per 100 working-age people | 58.7 per 100 working-age people |
| 2002 | 48.8 per 100 working-age people | 59.4 per 100 working-age people |
| 2001 | 49.3 per 100 working-age people | 60.1 per 100 working-age people |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +0.4 from 55.3 per 100 working-age people in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 50.0 per 100 working-age people, the figure has changed by +5.7.
- The figure for the world in 2025 was 54.5 per 100 working-age people.
More for Europe and Central Asia
All statistics for Europe and Central Asia
Population aged 0 to 14
17.2%
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Population
932,525,035 people
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Population growth
0.43%
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Population aged 65 and over
18.5%
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Fertility rate
1.55 births per woman
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Crude birth rate
9.8 per 1,000 people
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