Age dependency ratio in World
In 2025, the world had 54.5 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.
World is a group: All economies covered by the World Bank. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
World, 2025
54.5
Change from 2024
−0.3per 100 working-age people
European Union, 2025
57.9 per 100 working-age people
Age dependency ratio in World 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 | World | European Union |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54.5 per 100 working-age people | 57.9 per 100 working-age people |
| 2024 | 54.7 per 100 working-age people | 57.4 per 100 working-age people |
| 2023 | 55.0 per 100 working-age people | 56.9 per 100 working-age people |
| 2022 | 55.2 per 100 working-age people | 56.5 per 100 working-age people |
| 2021 | 55.3 per 100 working-age people | 56.1 per 100 working-age people |
| 2020 | 55.4 per 100 working-age people | 55.6 per 100 working-age people |
| 2019 | 55.4 per 100 working-age people | 55.1 per 100 working-age people |
| 2018 | 55.4 per 100 working-age people | 54.5 per 100 working-age people |
| 2017 | 55.3 per 100 working-age people | 53.9 per 100 working-age people |
| 2016 | 55.2 per 100 working-age people | 53.2 per 100 working-age people |
| 2015 | 55.1 per 100 working-age people | 52.6 per 100 working-age people |
| 2014 | 55.0 per 100 working-age people | 52.0 per 100 working-age people |
| 2013 | 55.0 per 100 working-age people | 51.3 per 100 working-age people |
| 2012 | 55.0 per 100 working-age people | 50.6 per 100 working-age people |
| 2011 | 55.0 per 100 working-age people | 50.0 per 100 working-age people |
| 2010 | 55.2 per 100 working-age people | 49.6 per 100 working-age people |
| 2009 | 55.5 per 100 working-age people | 49.3 per 100 working-age people |
| 2008 | 55.8 per 100 working-age people | 49.0 per 100 working-age people |
| 2007 | 56.2 per 100 working-age people | 48.8 per 100 working-age people |
| 2006 | 56.7 per 100 working-age people | 48.7 per 100 working-age people |
| 2005 | 57.3 per 100 working-age people | 48.6 per 100 working-age people |
| 2004 | 58.0 per 100 working-age people | 48.5 per 100 working-age people |
| 2003 | 58.7 per 100 working-age people | 48.5 per 100 working-age people |
| 2002 | 59.4 per 100 working-age people | 48.5 per 100 working-age people |
| 2001 | 60.1 per 100 working-age people | 48.5 per 100 working-age people |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of −0.3 from 54.7 per 100 working-age people in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 55.1 per 100 working-age people, the figure has changed by −0.6.
- The figure for the European Union in 2025 was 57.9 per 100 working-age people.
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All statistics for World
Population aged 0 to 14
24.4%
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Population
8,215,424,893 people
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Population growth
0.91%
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Population aged 65 and over
10.4%
2025 · World Bank
Fertility rate
2.19 births per woman
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Crude birth rate
16.3 per 1,000 people
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