Age dependency ratio in European Union
In 2025, the European Union had 57.9 people under 15 or over 64 for every 100 people aged 15 to 64. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1960.
European Union is a group: European Union, 27 member states (composition from February 2020). The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
European Union, 2025
57.9
Change from 2024
+0.6per 100 working-age people
World, 2025
54.5 per 100 working-age people
Age dependency ratio in European Union 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 | European Union | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57.9 per 100 working-age people | 54.5 per 100 working-age people |
| 2024 | 57.4 per 100 working-age people | 54.7 per 100 working-age people |
| 2023 | 56.9 per 100 working-age people | 55.0 per 100 working-age people |
| 2022 | 56.5 per 100 working-age people | 55.2 per 100 working-age people |
| 2021 | 56.1 per 100 working-age people | 55.3 per 100 working-age people |
| 2020 | 55.6 per 100 working-age people | 55.4 per 100 working-age people |
| 2019 | 55.1 per 100 working-age people | 55.4 per 100 working-age people |
| 2018 | 54.5 per 100 working-age people | 55.4 per 100 working-age people |
| 2017 | 53.9 per 100 working-age people | 55.3 per 100 working-age people |
| 2016 | 53.2 per 100 working-age people | 55.2 per 100 working-age people |
| 2015 | 52.6 per 100 working-age people | 55.1 per 100 working-age people |
| 2014 | 52.0 per 100 working-age people | 55.0 per 100 working-age people |
| 2013 | 51.3 per 100 working-age people | 55.0 per 100 working-age people |
| 2012 | 50.6 per 100 working-age people | 55.0 per 100 working-age people |
| 2011 | 50.0 per 100 working-age people | 55.0 per 100 working-age people |
| 2010 | 49.6 per 100 working-age people | 55.2 per 100 working-age people |
| 2009 | 49.3 per 100 working-age people | 55.5 per 100 working-age people |
| 2008 | 49.0 per 100 working-age people | 55.8 per 100 working-age people |
| 2007 | 48.8 per 100 working-age people | 56.2 per 100 working-age people |
| 2006 | 48.7 per 100 working-age people | 56.7 per 100 working-age people |
| 2005 | 48.6 per 100 working-age people | 57.3 per 100 working-age people |
| 2004 | 48.5 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 | 48.5 per 100 working-age people | 59.4 per 100 working-age people |
| 2001 | 48.5 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 +0.6 from 57.4 per 100 working-age people in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 52.6 per 100 working-age people, the figure has changed by +5.3.
- The figure for the world in 2025 was 54.5 per 100 working-age people.
More for European Union
All statistics for European Union
Old-age dependency ratio
34.5ep (Source flag ep) per 100 working-age people
2025 · Eurostat
Population aged 0 to 14
14.2%
2025 · World Bank
Population on 1 January
450,646,971ep (Source flag ep) people
2025 · Eurostat
Population by age and sex
450,646,971ep (Source flag ep) people
2025 · Eurostat
Crude birth rate
7.7ep (Source flag ep) per 1,000 people
2025 · Eurostat
Crude death rate
10.7ep (Source flag ep) per 1,000 people
2025 · Eurostat