Dataset
Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)
worldbank.wdi.SP.POP.DPND
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About
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.
Cite as: World Bank, World Development Indicators, Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) (SP.POP.DPND). Original source: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division; Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)
- Publisher
- World Bank
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1960–now
- Places
- Economies, regions and income groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- not stated
- Units
- % of working-age population
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.DPND
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| country_code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, or the World Bank's code for an aggregate |
| country_name | text | |
| aggregate | boolean | true for a region or income group, false for an economy |
| year | integer | |
| value | number | Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) |
| obs_status | text | the World Bank's status flag; empty for most observations |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| country | |
| year |