Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)

Dataset SP.POP.DPND published by World Bank, World Development Indicators. This page describes the source table. The measures below are the specific selections this site takes from it.

About the source table

Publisher: World Bank, World Development Indicators
Original producer: United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects
Code: SP.POP.DPND
Last update by provider: 8 October 2026
Last checked here: 9 November 2026
Licence (series metadata): CC BY-4.0
Source note: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division; Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)

Definition published with the series

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.

Measures taken from this dataset

Measure	Fixed selection	Unit
Age dependency ratio	SP.POP.DPND	dependants per 100 people aged 15 to 64