French Polynesia Dependency Ratio

French Polynesia’s dependency ratio has fallen dramatically from an all‑time peak of 93.76 in 1969 to a trough of 43.70 in 2025, placing it 186th globally and making it the lowest among the 66 years of World Bank coverage. The steep decline reflects a rapid demographic transition in which the proportion of non‑working‑age residents (children and elderly) has been cut by more than half, driven by falling fertility rates and modest gains in life expectancy. By 2025 the ratio of dependents to the working‑age population is 43.70, only slightly above Azerbaijan’s 43.67 and marginally below Trinidad and Tobago’s 43.59, indicating that French Polynesia now enjoys a more favourable age structure than many peer economies. The continued ageing of the population and the prospect of slower fertility decline could modestly raise the ratio in the medium term, but sustained improvements in health and labour‑force participation are likely to keep the downward trend largely intact.