Health · Pacific island small states
Yearly data from 1960 to 2025, from the World Bank.
Pacific island small states's age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) was 62.68% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 2.84 percentage points from 65.53% in 2015.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 62.68% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 64.89% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 65.53% | 2015 |
| Highest | 99.46% | 1963 |
| Lowest | 62.68% | 2025 |
| Average since 2016 | 64.47% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 99.19% | 1960 |
Over five years it is down 2.21 percentage points from 64.89% in 2020. Since 1960 it is down 36.51 percentage points from 99.19% in 1960.
In 2025, Pacific island small states' age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) fell 0.61 percentage points on 2024 (from 63.29% to 62.68%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.54 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.37 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 0.09 percentage points in 1962 and the biggest yearly fall was 1.33 percentage points in 1977. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is downward, about 0.3 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 93% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
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| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Pacific island small states | 62.68% | 2025 |
| World | 54.46% | 2025 |
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.
Limitations: Because the five-year age group is the cohort unit and five-year period data are used in the United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects, interpolations to obtain annual data or single age structure may not reflect actual events or age composition. For more information, see the original source.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
| Year | Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 62.68 |
| 2024 | 63.29 |
| 2023 | 63.81 |
| 2022 | 64.22 |
| 2021 | 64.56 |
| 2020 | 64.89 |
| 2019 | 65.13 |
| 2018 | 65.28 |
| 2017 | 65.38 |
| 2016 | 65.44 |
| 2015 | 65.53 |
| 2014 | 65.64 |
| 2013 | 65.75 |
| 2012 | 65.94 |
| 2011 | 66.16 |
| 2010 | 66.37 |
| 2009 | 66.64 |
| 2008 | 67 |
| 2007 | 67.48 |
| 2006 | 68.06 |
| 2005 | 68.71 |
| 2004 | 69.43 |
| 2003 | 70.23 |
| 2002 | 71.14 |
| 2001 | 72.07 |
| 2000 | 73.03 |
| 1999 | 74.11 |
| 1998 | 75.24 |
| 1997 | 76.37 |
| 1996 | 77.44 |
| 1995 | 78.42 |
| 1994 | 79.35 |
| 1993 | 80.07 |
| 1992 | 80.64 |
| 1991 | 81.27 |
| 1990 | 81.86 |
| 1989 | 82.32 |
| 1988 | 82.68 |
| 1987 | 83.02 |
| 1986 | 83.4 |
| 1985 | 83.83 |
| 1984 | 84.31 |
| 1983 | 84.88 |
| 1982 | 85.56 |
| 1981 | 86.32 |
| 1980 | 87.16 |
| 1979 | 87.83 |
| 1978 | 88.62 |
| 1977 | 89.84 |
| 1976 | 91.16 |
| 1975 | 92.39 |
| 1974 | 93.53 |
| 1973 | 94.69 |
| 1972 | 95.77 |
| 1971 | 96.69 |
| 1970 | 97.54 |
| 1969 | 98.28 |
| 1968 | 98.75 |
| 1967 | 99.01 |
| 1966 | 99.2 |
| 1965 | 99.26 |
| 1964 | 99.35 |
| 1963 | 99.46 |
| 1962 | 99.37 |
| 1961 | 99.28 |
| 1960 | 99.19 |
Every indicator for Pacific island small states is on the Pacific island small states data page.
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SP.POP.DPND, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division; Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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