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 Oldest-age ratio (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Oldest-age ratio (No.) by Place of residence at Census date [2021] (NUTS - 2024) and Sex; Decennial
Regularity Decennial
Source Statistics Portugal, Population and housing census - 2021
First available period 2021
Last available period 2021
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence at Census date [2021] (NUTS - 2024)
  • Sex
Concepts
  • RESIDENT POPULATION:  Set of persons who, regardless of being present or absent in a given housing unit at the moment of observation, have lived in the place of their usual residence for a continuous period of 12 months prior to the moment of observation, or have arrived to the place of their usual residence during the period of 12 months prior to the moment of observation, with the purpose of living there for a year, at least.
  • PLACE OF USUAL RESIDENCE:  Place in which a person normally spends the daily period of rest (regardless of temporary absences for purposes of leisure, holiday, visits to friends and relatives, business, medical treatment, or others) and where the person lives or intends to live for the most part of the year, taking the last 12 months as reference.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • LONGEVITY INDEX:  The ratio of the number of oldest old persons (aged 75 and over) to the number of elderly persons of an age when they are generally economically inactive (aged 65 and over).
Formule Quotient between the number of persons with 75 and more years old and the number of persons with 75 and more years old.
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 19/03/2024


information presented in 17/7/2024