People1960–2025percent

Age dependency

Name: Age dependency
Creator: World Bank Open Data
License: https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/public-licenses

Number of dependents per 100 people of working age from the World Bank. Polish national data can be found in Demographic dependency (GUS).

54.4%Poland · 2025

World Bank Open DataPublished by source: 2026-07-13

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Saved data version: retrieved 2026-09-15, ID 17c8fdf4b939Warehouse version at build: v45

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Poland: 1960–2025; observations: 66; missing years: 0

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64.4→54.4

Total change: −10.0 pp
Period: 1960–2025

Poland: 64.4 (1960) → 54.4 (2025). Difference: −10.0 pp. Peak value of 64.9 in 1961; lowest value of 40.1 in 2010.

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Age dependency — Poland
Year	Country	Value
2025	Poland	54.4%
2024	Poland	53.7%
2023	Poland	53%
2022	Poland	52.3%
2021	Poland	51.5%
2020	Poland	50.5%
2019	Poland	49.2%
2018	Poland	47.8%
2017	Poland	46.4%
2016	Poland	45%
2015	Poland	43.8%
2014	Poland	42.8%
2013	Poland	41.9%
2012	Poland	41.2%
2011	Poland	40.6%
2010	Poland	40.1%
2009	Poland	40.2%
2008	Poland	40.7%
2007	Poland	41.1%
2006	Poland	41.7%

Source: World Bank Open Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Published by source: 2026-07-13
Retrieved: 2026-09-15
Indicator code in source: SP.POP.DPND
Unit of measure: percent
Data version: v45

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Longseries, “Age dependency”. World Bank Open Data (SP.POP.DPND), 1960–2025, Brazil, China, Czechia, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, United States, World. Retrieved 2026-09-15. CC BY 4.0. Data version v45. Data SHA-256: 17c8fdf4b93999c396de1857bed66bef26769dcb3e2250fe75a53cad8dedf15e. https://longseries.com/en/d/age-dependency/

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Extremes among countries with the same observation year: for 2025: highest — Japan; lowest — China

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15 places — sorted by value, highest first
Country
Highest value in the comparable yearJapan	2025	70.2%70.2%
France	2025	63.3%63.3%
Sweden	2025	60.3%60.3%
Germany	2025	60.2%60.2%
Italy	2025	58.1%58.1%
United Kingdom	2025	57.9%57.9%
Czechia	2025	56.9%56.9%
Netherlands	2025	55.8%55.8%

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About this series

Age-dependency ratio, % of working-age population. World Bank.

Indicator definition

Age dependency ratio: dependents (under 15 or over 64) per 100 working-age population (ages 15–64). See also: Demographic dependency (GUS).

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