Pre-demographic dividend's age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) was 5.3% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 0.03 percentage points from 5.27% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 5.3% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 5.28% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 5.27% | 2015 |
| Highest | 6.03% | 1984 |
| Lowest | 5.26% | 2017 |
| Average since 2016 | 5.28% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 5.73% | 1960 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Pre-demographic dividend's age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) rose 0.01 percentage points on 2024 (from 5.29% to 5.3%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.02 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.02 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.9 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 0.02 percentage points in 1973 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.05 percentage points in 1994. 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 upward, about 0.00301 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 50% 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.
How it compares
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| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-demographic dividend | 5.3% | 2025 |
| World | 15.96% | 2025 |
What this measures
Age dependency ratio, old, is the ratio of older dependents--people 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.
All 66 values
| Year | Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 5.29 |
| 2023 | 5.28 |
| 2022 | 5.27 |
| 2021 | 5.27 |
| 2020 | 5.28 |
| 2019 | 5.28 |
| 2018 | 5.27 |
| 2017 | 5.26 |
| 2016 | 5.27 |
| 2015 |
Age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) in nearby economies
- Afghanistan — 4.41% (2025)
- Algeria — 10.76% (2025)
- Bahrain — 5.18% (2025)
- Djibouti — 7.51% (2025)
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — 8.34% (2025)
- Iran, Islamic Rep. — 12.37% (2025)
- Iraq — 5.7% (2025)
- Israel — 21.1% (2025)
- Jordan — 7.31% (2025)
- Kuwait
More health data for Pre-demographic dividend
- Population ages 00-04, female (% of female population) — 15.05% (2025)
- Population ages 00-04, male (% of male population) — 15.42% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, female — 233.01 million (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, female (% of female population) — 41.1% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male — 238.37 million (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male (% of male population) — 42.1% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, total — 471.38 million (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) — 41.6% (2025)
- Population ages 05-09, female (% of female population)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Pre-demographic dividend's age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population)?
- 5.3% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1960?
- It is down 0.42 percentage points from 5.73% in 1960. The highest value was 6.03% in 1984 and the lowest 5.26% in 2017.
- Is the latest change in age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) unusual for Pre-demographic dividend?
- In 2025, Pre-demographic dividend's age dependency ratio, old (% of working-age population) rose 0.01 percentage points on 2024 (from 5.29% to 5.3%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.02 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.02 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.9 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SP.POP.DPND.OL, 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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