Old-age-dependency ratio

In 2025, the EU-27 figure for old-age-dependency ratio was 34.5 .

That is a 1.8% rose versus 2024 (33.9).

Over the five years before that, the EU-27 aggregate moved 7.8% higher.

Across member states, Italy reported the highest value (39.0, 2025) and Luxembourg the lowest (22.0, 2025) — a ratio of 1.8× between the two ends of the range.

The figures below come from Eurostat dataset tps00198; every value links back to the canonical source.