Age dependency ratio

Age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents--people younger than 15 or older than 64--to the working-age population--those ages 15-64. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age population.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
215
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    United Nations

    World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    World Bank

    Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Afghanistan202581.77percent
Albania202552.04percent
Algeria202558.06percent
American Samoa202553.58percent
Andorra202539.24percent
Angola202588.66percent
Antigua and Barbuda202542.46percent
Argentina202550.72percent
Armenia202550.22percent
Aruba202552.16percent

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