Old-age-dependency ratio

In 2021, Luxembourg's old-age-dependency ratio increased by 0.5% compared to 2020, reaching 21.0.

Luxembourg accounts for 64.4% of the EU-27 total of 32.6.

Luxembourg ranks 27th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 2.4% (from 20.5 in 2016).

Source: Eurostat dataset tps00198, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.