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Portugal Age Dependency Ratio

Portugal age dependency ratio: latest available value for 2025, historical series from 2016, ranking context and source documentation.

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Series overview

SP.POP.DPND

COUNTRY: PortugalINDICATOR: SP.POP.DPNDUNIT: percentSOURCE: World Bank Indicators APISOURCE KEY: worldbankDATA UPDATED: 2026-07-13 02:00:00FETCHED: 2026-08-02 08:24:55REVISIONS: 1ORIGINAL API RESPONSE

60,40Latest / 2025

0,83Change from previous

57,11Series average

149Global rank / 217

Portugal / Age Dependency Ratio Unit: Percent (%)

Selected year: 202560,40%

201620252025

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Year	Value	Change
2025	60,40	0,83
2024	59,57	0,83
2023	58,74	0,79
2022	57,95	0,63
2021	57,32	0,58
2020	56,74	0,68
2019	56,06	0,66
2018	55,40	0,62
2017	54,78	0,67
2016	54,11	—

Source methodology

World Development Indicators

Indicator 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.

Revision history

1 detected changes

Source revisions are retained before the current observation is replaced. This table documents the previous and replacement value for reproducibility.

Detected	Data year	Previous value	Replacement value	Source	Source update
2026-08-02 06:24:56	2025	60,40	60,40	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00

Country-specific interpretation

Automatically derived from the displayed series

Portugal recorded 60,40 percent in 2025, the latest year available in this series.

Compared with 2024, the age dependency ratio increased by 0,83.

Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an upward direction.

Across 10 observations from 2016 to 2025, the average was 57,11; the minimum was 54,11 in 2016 and the maximum was 60,40 in 2025.

Portugal ranks 149 out of 217 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.

The latest value is above the available average for Europe & Central Asia.

It is also above the available average for the High income group.

Demographic pressure on the working-age population.

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