Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 22 June 2004
96 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Taoiseach his projection of evolution of the working age population here as a proportion of total population over the next 25 years on present trends and the equivalent available projections for other OECD countries. [18259/04]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe information requested by the Deputy is contained in the following table which is based on the medium variant of the UN population projections. The working age population is defined as those aged 15 to 64 years.
|
Projection Year |
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|
Country |
2000 |
2005 |
2010 |
2015 |
2020 |
2025 |
2030 |
|
% |
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|
Australia |
67.2 |
67.8 |
68.2 |
67.2 |
65.8 |
64.1 |
62.5 |
|
Austria |
67.8 |
68.2 |
68.5 |
68.2 |
67.0 |
64.3 |
60.6 |
|
Belgium |
65.6 |
65.6 |
66.1 |
65.0 |
63.7 |
61.8 |
59.7 |
|
Canada |
68.4 |
69.4 |
70.0 |
68.8 |
66.6 |
63.8 |
61.3 |
|
Czech Republic |
69.8 |
71.2 |
70.9 |
68.1 |
65.7 |
64.5 |
63.4 |
|
Denmark |
66.7 |
66.3 |
65.7 |
64.5 |
63.8 |
62.5 |
60.4 |
|
Finland |
66.9 |
66.9 |
66.6 |
63.9 |
61.6 |
59.8 |
58.5 |
|
France |
65.2 |
65.3 |
65.2 |
63.7 |
62.5 |
61.3 |
60.0 |
|
Germany |
68.1 |
67.0 |
66.2 |
66.0 |
64.7 |
62.6 |
59.6 |
|
Greece |
67.4 |
66.7 |
66.4 |
65.8 |
65.0 |
63.7 |
61.9 |
|
Hungary |
68.4 |
69.4 |
70.0 |
69.3 |
67.1 |
65.5 |
65.0 |
|
Iceland |
65.0 |
66.2 |
67.4 |
67.0 |
65.8 |
63.9 |
62.2 |
|
Ireland |
67.2 |
68.2 |
67.7 |
66.3 |
65.5 |
65.1 |
65.0 |
|
Italy |
67.6 |
66.6 |
66.3 |
65.3 |
64.6 |
63.0 |
60.0 |
|
Japan |
68.2 |
66.3 |
64.0 |
61.0 |
59.5 |
58.9 |
57.8 |
|
Luxembourg |
67.3 |
67.3 |
68.0 |
68.1 |
67.8 |
66.7 |
64.9 |
|
Mexico |
61.4 |
63.5 |
65.3 |
66.8 |
67.6 |
68.0 |
68.0 |
|
Netherlands |
67.9 |
67.7 |
67.6 |
66.2 |
65.1 |
63.3 |
60.9 |
|
New Zealand |
65.3 |
66.0 |
66.8 |
66.1 |
65.0 |
63.2 |
61.2 |
|
Norway |
64.8 |
65.7 |
66.3 |
65.4 |
64.2 |
62.4 |
60.5 |
|
Poland |
68.6 |
70.7 |
72.2 |
70.6 |
67.7 |
65.3 |
64.5 |
|
Portugal |
67.7 |
67.0 |
66.9 |
66.7 |
66.4 |
65.4 |
63.8 |
|
Republic of Korea |
72.0 |
71.8 |
72.5 |
72.6 |
71.5 |
68.4 |
65.1 |
|
Slovakia |
69.1 |
71.3 |
72.2 |
71.0 |
68.6 |
66.8 |
65.5 |
|
Spain |
68.6 |
68.8 |
68.2 |
67.6 |
67.0 |
65.3 |
62.7 |
|
Sweden |
64.3 |
65.3 |
65.2 |
62.9 |
61.3 |
60.0 |
58.8 |
|
Switzerland |
67.3 |
67.4 |
66.9 |
65.4 |
63.3 |
60.2 |
56.7 |
|
Turkey |
62.8 |
65.1 |
66.9 |
68.3 |
69.3 |
69.6 |
69.1 |
|
United Kingdom |
65.1 |
66.1 |
66.9 |
66.3 |
65.5 |
64.2 |
62.5 |
|
United States of America |
65.9 |
66.5 |
66.6 |
65.5 |
64.1 |
62.5 |
61.5 |
