Nigeria | Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)
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 and exceptions: Annual data series are interpolated from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data.
| year | value |
|---|---|
| 1960 | 81.41599209 |
| 1961 | 81.7455556 |
| 1962 | 82.14024827 |
| 1963 | 82.56752268 |
| 1964 | 82.98556236 |
| 1965 | 83.36781737 |
| 1966 | 83.7018509 |
| 1967 | 84.00109471 |
| 1968 | 84.29585068 |
| 1969 | 84.62671487 |
| 1970 | 85.01825142 |
| 1971 | 85.48333787 |
| 1972 | 86.00528645 |
| 1973 | 86.54413147 |
| 1974 | 87.04676946 |
| 1975 | 87.4814342 |
| 1976 | 87.81910098 |
| 1977 | 88.08285193 |
| 1978 | 88.35004712 |
| 1979 | 88.71923704 |
| 1980 | 89.24424439 |
| 1981 | 89.94239229 |
| 1982 | 90.75913073 |
| 1983 | 91.58882966 |
| 1984 | 92.29204211 |
| 1985 | 92.7728801 |
| 1986 | 93.01474689 |
| 1987 | 93.05208016 |
| 1988 | 92.90803835 |
| 1989 | 92.62002076 |
| 1990 | 92.22018459 |
| 1991 | 91.7194291 |
| 1992 | 91.12927775 |
| 1993 | 90.48199943 |
| 1994 | 89.81309618 |
| 1995 | 89.15090337 |
| 1996 | 88.50470402 |
| 1997 | 87.88390083 |
| 1998 | 87.31316629 |
| 1999 | 86.81850352 |
| 2000 | 86.41578754 |
| 2001 | 86.10604606 |
| 2002 | 85.88128365 |
| 2003 | 85.73444319 |
| 2004 | 85.65506038 |
| 2005 | 85.63156771 |
| 2006 | 85.65881599 |
| 2007 | 85.72566657 |
| 2008 | 85.80794636 |
| 2009 | 85.87772808 |
| 2010 | 85.91427358 |
| 2011 | 85.90925751 |
| 2012 |
Nigeria | Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)
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 and exceptions: Annual data series are interpolated from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data.