{"id":467130,"date":"2025-10-02T00:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/467130\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T00:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:41:10","slug":"old-age-dependency-growing-across-eu-regions-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/467130\/","title":{"rendered":"Old-age dependency growing across EU regions – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

The EU<\/a>\u2019s old-age dependency ratio, defined as the proportion of elderly individuals (aged 65 years or over) relative to the working-age population (people aged 20 to 64 years), has increased noticeably in the last 20 years. In 2004, the EU\u2019s old-age dependency ratio was 26.8%, meaning there were slightly fewer than 4 working-age adults per elderly person aged 65 years or over. On 1 January 2024, the ratio was 37.0%, indicating that there were fewer than 3 working-age adults for every elderly person.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The French outermost regions Mayotte (6.1%) and Guyane (13.8%) and the capital region Byen K\u00f8benhavn in Denmark (17.8%) had the lowest old-age dependency ratios.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Belgian coastal region of Arrondissement of Veurne had the highest old-age dependency ratio (72.8%). Alto T\u00e2mega e Barroso in northern Portugal (71.4%) and Evrytania in central Greece (71.1%) were the only other regions in the EU where this ratio exceeded 70%.<\/p>\n

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Source datasets: demo_r_pjanind3<\/a> and demo_pjanind<\/a><\/p>\n

On January 2024, there were 139 nomenclature of territorial units for statistics<\/a> (NUTS 3) regions where the old-age dependency ratio was at least 50%. This group of regions was mainly concentrated in (eastern) Germany and France. In addition, Italy, Finland, Portugal, Bulgaria, Greece and Spain also had several regions where the old-age dependency ratio was at least 50%.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This news item marks International Day of Older Persons<\/a>, celebrated every year on 1 October.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Would you like to know more about population statistics at the regional level?<\/p>\n

You can read more about population statistics in the Eurostat regional yearbook \u2013 2025 edition<\/a>, also available as a set of Statistics Explained articles<\/a> as well as in the population section of the interactive publication Regions in Europe<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The EU\u2019s old-age dependency ratio, defined as the proportion of elderly individuals (aged 65 years or over) relative…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[64410,2000,299,5187,115371,155849],"class_list":{"0":"post-467130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-data-driven-news","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-general-and-regional-statistics","13":"tag-reg"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115301796026175889","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}