Nigeria - Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population)

The value for Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) in Nigeria was 80.87 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 87.20 in 1987 and a minimum value of 74.88 in 1960.

Definition: Age dependency ratio, young, is the ratio of younger dependents--people younger than 15--to the working-age population--those ages 15-64. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age population.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on age distributions of United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision.

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Year Value
1960 74.88
1961 75.50
1962 75.84
1963 75.99
1964 76.04
1965 76.06
1966 76.77
1967 77.29
1968 77.66
1969 77.92
1970 78.11
1971 78.87
1972 79.52
1973 80.05
1974 80.47
1975 80.79
1976 81.61
1977 82.14
1978 82.48
1979 82.73
1980 82.90
1981 84.01
1982 84.94
1983 85.68
1984 86.19
1985 86.47
1986 87.00
1987 87.20
1988 87.11
1989 86.78
1990 86.25
1991 86.12
1992 85.75
1993 85.19
1994 84.47
1995 83.65
1996 83.40
1997 82.98
1998 82.46
1999 81.91
2000 81.38
2001 81.51
2002 81.56
2003 81.56
2004 81.53
2005 81.50
2006 81.95
2007 82.27
2008 82.49
2009 82.64
2010 82.73
2011 83.06
2012 83.29
2013 83.39
2014 83.31
2015 83.06
2016 82.99
2017 82.67
2018 82.17
2019 81.55
2020 80.87

Development Relevance: Patterns of development in a country are partly determined by the age composition of its population. Different age groups have different impacts on both the environment and on infrastructure needs. Therefore the age structure of a population is useful for analyzing resource use and formulating future policy and planning goals with regards infrastructure and development.

Limitations and Exceptions: 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.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Dependency ratios capture variations in the proportions of children, elderly people, and working-age people in the population that imply the dependency burden that the working-age population bears in relation to children and the elderly. But dependency ratios show only the age composition of a population, not economic dependency. Some children and elderly people are part of the labor force, and many working-age people are not. Age structure in the World Bank's population estimates is based on the age structure in United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects. For more information, see the original source.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population