COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Iceland Age Dependency Ratio
Iceland age dependency ratio: latest available value for 2025, historical series from 2025, ranking context and source documentation.
Series overview
SP.POP.DPND| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50,36 | — |
Source methodology
World Development IndicatorsIndicator note: 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.
Source organization: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division; Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)
Metadata fetched: 2026-08-01 01:28:41. Open original metadata response.
Country-specific interpretation
Automatically derived from the displayed seriesIceland recorded 50,36 percent in 2025, the latest year available in this series.
Across 1 observations from 2025 to 2025, the average was 50,36; the minimum was 50,36 in 2025 and the maximum was 50,36 in 2025.
Iceland ranks 68 out of 217 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.
The latest value is below the available average for Europe & Central Asia.
It is also below the available average for the High income group.
Demographic pressure on the working-age population.