Estonia vs Latvia: Age dependency breakdown

Estonia

33.1%

in 2023

Latvia

33.9%

in 2023

Estonia rank

22nd

Latvia rank

19th

Age dependency breakdown over time

Latvia currently reports 33.9% against 33.1% in Estonia, a difference of 0.8%.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Estonia ahead.

Estonia ranks 22nd and Latvia ranks 19th of 236 countries.

Indicator: Age dependency breakdown
Unit: %
Source: UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 236 places, 17,464 data points, 1950–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The number of people aged 65 and over per 100 working-age people (aged 15 to 64).