Age dependency ratio in Tunisia

In 2025, Tunisia had 50.4 people under 15 or over 64 for every 100 people aged 15 to 64.

Measure: Age dependency ratio Unit: Dependants per 100 people aged 15 to 64 Data: 1960 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Tunisia, 2025 50.4 Dependants per 100 people aged 15 to 64
Change from 2024 −0.2per 100 working-age people 2024: 50.5 per 100 working-age people
World, 2025 54.5 per 100 working-age people Official aggregate
Position in 2025 149th of 217 See the full ranking

Age dependency ratio in Tunisia 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.

Age dependency ratio (dependants per 100 people aged 15 to 64), 2001 to 2025
Period TunisiaWorld
2025 50.4 per 100 working-age people 54.5 per 100 working-age people
2024 50.5 per 100 working-age people 54.7 per 100 working-age people
2023 50.6 per 100 working-age people 55.0 per 100 working-age people
2022 50.6 per 100 working-age people 55.2 per 100 working-age people
2021 50.4 per 100 working-age people 55.3 per 100 working-age people
2020 50.1 per 100 working-age people 55.4 per 100 working-age people
2019 49.4 per 100 working-age people 55.4 per 100 working-age people
2018 48.6 per 100 working-age people 55.4 per 100 working-age people
2017 47.9 per 100 working-age people 55.3 per 100 working-age people
2016 47.1 per 100 working-age people 55.2 per 100 working-age people
2015 46.4 per 100 working-age people 55.1 per 100 working-age people
2014 45.7 per 100 working-age people 55.0 per 100 working-age people
2013 45.1 per 100 working-age people 55.0 per 100 working-age people
2012 44.6 per 100 working-age people 55.0 per 100 working-age people
2011 44.3 per 100 working-age people 55.0 per 100 working-age people
2010 44.3 per 100 working-age people 55.2 per 100 working-age people
2009 44.5 per 100 working-age people 55.5 per 100 working-age people
2008 44.9 per 100 working-age people 55.8 per 100 working-age people
2007 45.5 per 100 working-age people 56.2 per 100 working-age people
2006 46.4 per 100 working-age people 56.7 per 100 working-age people
2005 47.4 per 100 working-age people 57.3 per 100 working-age people
2004 48.7 per 100 working-age people 58.0 per 100 working-age people
2003 50.3 per 100 working-age people 58.7 per 100 working-age people
2002 51.9 per 100 working-age people 59.4 per 100 working-age people
2001 53.7 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 −0.2 from 50.5 per 100 working-age people in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 46.4 per 100 working-age people, the figure has changed by +4.0.
  • Among the 217 countries with data for 2025, Tunisia has the 149th highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2025 was 54.5 per 100 working-age people.

Source and dates

Original producer
United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
SP.POP.DPND · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1960 to 2025 for Tunisia
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects