Sweden

Dependent People

61.17

percent of the working age population

Global Ranking

54

Equatorial Guinea64.37

55

Papua New Guinea63.18

56

57

58

59

60

61

62

Haiti60.38

63

64

Kyrgyzstan59.69

Europe Ranking

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

United Kingdom57.06

9

9

Italy56.96

News

Evidence from Finland and Sweden on the relationship between early-life diseases and lifetime childlessness in men and women
Nature.comMonday, December 18, 2023
Population structure and ageing
European CommissionSaturday, August 18, 2018
Age Structure
Our World in DataThursday, May 5, 2016
I’m an American living in Sweden. Here’s why I came to embrace the higher taxes.
Vox.comFriday, April 8, 2016
Acta Paediatrica | Paediatrics Journal
Wiley Online LibraryFriday, February 7, 2020
Polychlorinated alkanes in paired blood serum and breast milk in a Swedish cohort study: Matrix dependent partitioning differences compared to legacy POPs
ScienceDirect.comSaturday, January 13, 2024
Sweden
BritannicaSaturday, January 23, 2016
Why so many young Swedes live alone
BBC.comWednesday, August 21, 2019
Tackling Europe’s youth unemployment
World Economic ForumWednesday, November 5, 2014
In these 11 European countries, births out of wedlock are in the majority
Big ThinkTuesday, March 14, 2023

Definition of Dependent People

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.

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