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🧒 Highest Youth Dependency

People younger than 15 per 100 people aged 15 to 64.

📅 2025📏 children per 100 working-age people215 entries
Every dot is one country, placed by its value (children per 100 working-age people); the vertical bar marks each row’s median. Rows are world regions, ordered by their median. Hover a dot for its name.
1
🇨🇫Central African Republic
99.1
2
🇸🇴Somalia
91.6
3
🇳🇪Niger
90.4
4
🇨🇩DR Congo
90.2
5
🇹🇩Chad
88.5
6
🇲🇱Mali
88.3
7
🇦🇴Angola
83.2
8
🇲🇿Mozambique
83.2
9
🇧🇮Burundi
82.3
10
🇺🇬Uganda
78.9
11
🇲🇷Mauritania
78.0
12
🇹🇿Tanzania
77.5
13
🇦🇫Afghanistan
77.4
14
🇧🇯Benin
74.2
15
🇨🇲Cameroon
73.3
16
🇧🇫Burkina Faso
73.3
17
🇾🇪Yemen
72.7
18
🇬🇳Guinea
72.4
19
🇹🇬Togo
72.1
20
🇿🇲Zambia
71.8
21
🇳🇬Nigeria
71.8
22
🇿🇼Zimbabwe
71.7
23
🇸🇩Sudan
71.3
24
🇨🇮Ivory Coast
71.1
25
🇨🇬Congo
70.1
26
🇲🇼Malawi
70.0
27
🇬🇲Gambia
69.6
28
🇼🇸Samoa
68.1
29
🇱🇷Liberia
67.9
30
🇲🇬Madagascar
67.6
31
🇪🇹Ethiopia
66.9
32
🇻🇺Vanuatu
65.8
33
🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau
65.6
34
🇪🇷Eritrea
64.6
35
🇸🇸South Sudan
64.5
36
🇸🇳Senegal
64.4
37
🇵🇸Palestine
64.2
38
🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe
63.9
39
🇸🇱Sierra Leone
63.7
40
🇰🇲Comoros
62.8
41
🇷🇼Rwanda
62.8
42
🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea
62.7
43
🇳🇷Nauru
62.1
44
🇳🇦Namibia
61.5
45
🇸🇧Solomon Islands
61.2
46
🇵🇰Pakistan
61.0
47
🇬🇦Gabon
60.8
48
🇹🇴Tonga
60.0
49
🇹🇯Tajikistan
59.7
50
🇰🇪Kenya
59.7

Highlights

As of 2025, Central African Republic ranks first with 99.1, followed by Somalia (91.6) and Niger (90.4).

Across 215 countries and territories, values run from 99.1 (Central African Republic) to 14.7 (South Korea), with a median of 33.3.

All of the top 10 are in Africa.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population), 2025. Unit: children per 100 working-age people.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Age dependency ratio, young (% of working-age population) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 15, 2026