Age dependency ratio in Sub-Saharan Africa
In 2025, Sub-Saharan Africa had 78.1 people under 15 or over 64 for every 100 people aged 15 to 64. The value for 2025 is the lowest in the series, which starts in 1960.
Sub-Saharan Africa is a group: World Bank region. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
Sub-Saharan Africa, 2025
78.1
Change from 2024
−0.9per 100 working-age people
World, 2025
54.5 per 100 working-age people
Age dependency ratio in Sub-Saharan Africa over time
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Dependants per 100 people aged 15 to 64. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | Sub-Saharan Africa | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78.1 per 100 working-age people | 54.5 per 100 working-age people |
| 2024 | 79.0 per 100 working-age people | 54.7 per 100 working-age people |
| 2023 | 80.0 per 100 working-age people | 55.0 per 100 working-age people |
| 2022 | 80.9 per 100 working-age people | 55.2 per 100 working-age people |
| 2021 | 81.9 per 100 working-age people | 55.3 per 100 working-age people |
| 2020 | 82.8 per 100 working-age people | 55.4 per 100 working-age people |
| 2019 | 83.7 per 100 working-age people | 55.4 per 100 working-age people |
| 2018 | 84.6 per 100 working-age people | 55.4 per 100 working-age people |
| 2017 | 85.4 per 100 working-age people | 55.3 per 100 working-age people |
| 2016 | 86.2 per 100 working-age people | 55.2 per 100 working-age people |
| 2015 | 86.8 per 100 working-age people | 55.1 per 100 working-age people |
| 2014 | 87.4 per 100 working-age people | 55.0 per 100 working-age people |
| 2013 | 87.9 per 100 working-age people | 55.0 per 100 working-age people |
| 2012 | 88.3 per 100 working-age people | 55.0 per 100 working-age people |
| 2011 | 88.7 per 100 working-age people | 55.0 per 100 working-age people |
| 2010 | 89.1 per 100 working-age people | 55.2 per 100 working-age people |
| 2009 | 89.4 per 100 working-age people | 55.5 per 100 working-age people |
| 2008 | 89.7 per 100 working-age people | 55.8 per 100 working-age people |
| 2007 | 89.9 per 100 working-age people | 56.2 per 100 working-age people |
| 2006 | 90.1 per 100 working-age people | 56.7 per 100 working-age people |
| 2005 | 90.2 per 100 working-age people | 57.3 per 100 working-age people |
| 2004 | 90.5 per 100 working-age people | 58.0 per 100 working-age people |
| 2003 | 90.7 per 100 working-age people | 58.7 per 100 working-age people |
| 2002 | 91.0 per 100 working-age people | 59.4 per 100 working-age people |
| 2001 | 91.4 per 100 working-age people | 60.1 per 100 working-age people |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of −0.9 from 79.0 per 100 working-age people in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 86.8 per 100 working-age people, the figure has changed by −8.7.
- The figure for the world in 2025 was 54.5 per 100 working-age people.
More for Sub-Saharan Africa
All statistics for Sub-Saharan Africa
Population aged 0 to 14
40.4%
2025 · World Bank
Population
1,321,654,217 people
2025 · World Bank
Population growth
2.43%
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Population aged 65 and over
3.2%
2025 · World Bank
Fertility rate
4.26 births per woman
2024 · World Bank
Crude birth rate
32.8 per 1,000 people
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