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Nigeria - Dependency Ratio 1974

Name: Nigeria Dependency Ratio 1974
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

86.63 +0.73 from 1973 Global rank: 121st

Nigeria's dependency ratio was 86.63 in 1974, increased +0.73 from 85.90 in 1973. This was the 121st highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1974▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 1974
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	United Arab Emirates	40.95	-1.3%
2nd	Serbia	45.74	0.0%
3rd	Japan	45.97	1.5%
4th	Russian Federation	47.60	-1.6%
5th	Croatia	48.07	0.2%
6th	Hungary	48.30	1.6%
7th	Finland	48.59	-0.7%
8th	Bulgaria	48.98	0.9%
9th	Andorra	49.41	-2.9%
10th	Ukraine	50.29	-0.6%
11th	Poland	50.65	-0.9%
12th	Latvia	51.11	-0.3%
13th	Luxembourg	51.31	-0.7%
14th	Estonia	51.56	-0.2%
15th	Slovenia	51.81	0.6%
16th	Malta	52.39	-1.9%
17th	Bermuda	52.40	-1.7%
18th	Romania	52.66	1.7%
19th	Czechia	52.84	2.5%
20th	Liechtenstein	53.38	-1.3%
21st	San Marino	53.72	-0.6%
22nd	Moldova	53.90	-2.0%
23rd	Switzerland	54.08	-0.4%
24th	Channel Islands	54.28	-1.4%
25th	Gibraltar	54.42	0.2%
26th	Canada	54.51	-2.9%
27th	Belarus	54.77	-2.2%
28th	Sweden	55.16	1.2%
29th	Denmark	55.92	0.4%
30th	Greece	56.06	0.3%
31st	Slovak Republic	56.21	0.3%
32nd	United States	56.30	-2.7%
33rd	European Union	56.57	-0.1%
34th	Italy	57.25	0.6%
35th	Australia	57.36	-1.1%
36th	Belgium	57.51	-1.0%
37th	Germany	57.56	-0.8%
38th	Netherlands	57.59	-1.4%
39th	Georgia	57.75	-1.8%
40th	Argentina	57.91	0.7%
41st	Monaco	57.96	-0.5%
42nd	Lithuania	58.25	-1.3%
43rd	Uruguay	58.44	0.3%
44th	Hong Kong SAR, China	59.28	-4.1%
45th	North Macedonia	59.72	-1.4%
46th	Norway	59.94	0.1%
47th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	60.03	-2.4%
48th	France	60.08	-0.4%
49th	United Kingdom	60.08	-0.1%
50th	Singapore	60.28	-4.6%
51st	Nauru	60.31	-6.6%
52nd	Spain	60.47	-0.2%
53rd	Montenegro	60.59	-1.7%
54th	Portugal	60.71	-0.6%
55th	Austria	61.90	-0.5%
56th	Qatar	62.54	-3.3%
57th	Kazakhstan	64.02	-2.0%
58th	Cyprus	64.11	-1.3%
59th	New Zealand	64.57	-1.7%
60th	Aruba	64.77	-3.7%
61st	Guam	65.53	-2.2%
62nd	Faroe Islands	65.56	-0.6%
63rd	Iceland	65.97	-1.8%
64th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	66.52	-3.6%
65th	Armenia	66.95	-3.8%
66th	Israel	67.02	1.2%
67th	Barbados	67.84	-1.6%
68th	Chile	68.03	-1.6%
69th	Isle of Man	69.14	1.1%
70th	British Virgin Islands	69.52	-0.9%
71st	Cayman Islands	70.89	-4.4%
72nd	Puerto Rico (US)	71.97	-1.7%
73rd	Greenland	72.00	-5.2%
74th	Ireland	72.15	-0.4%
75th	Mauritius	72.55	-3.4%
76th	Virgin Islands (US)	73.18	0.8%
77th	Curaçao	73.20	-3.2%
78th	Sri Lanka	73.64	-1.5%
79th	Timor-Leste	73.70	-0.1%
80th	Trinidad and Tobago	74.40	-2.8%
81st	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	74.64	-2.0%
82nd	Bahamas, The	75.51	-0.8%
83rd	Korea	75.61	-3.1%
84th	Cuba	75.98	-0.4%
85th	Bahrain	77.06	-5.1%
86th	Nepal	78.29	0.3%
87th	Tuvalu	78.29	-3.3%
88th	New Caledonia	78.32	0.5%
89th	China	78.71	0.3%
90th	Brazil	78.87	-1.6%
91st	Myanmar	79.20	-0.3%
92nd	Gabon	80.02	1.5%
93rd	Bhutan	80.46	0.4%
94th	India	80.67	-0.4%
95th	Brunei Darussalam	80.88	-2.1%
96th	Kyrgyz Republic	80.94	-1.0%
97th	Albania	81.72	-2.1%
98th	Haiti	81.76	0.2%
99th	Costa Rica	81.91	-2.9%
100th	Kuwait	81.91	-1.1%
101st	Guinea	82.01	0.8%
102nd	Egypt, Arab Republic of	82.05	-0.2%
103rd	Equatorial Guinea	82.30	0.6%
104th	Antigua and Barbuda	82.34	-3.8%
105th	Sierra Leone	82.72	0.8%
106th	Gambia, The	82.92	1.0%
107th	Malaysia	83.02	-1.9%
108th	Mali	83.18	1.1%
109th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	83.18	-0.1%
110th	Fiji	83.30	-2.7%
111th	Indonesia	83.86	-0.4%
112th	Lesotho	84.00	-1.7%
113th	South Africa	84.27	-0.2%
114th	Azerbaijan	84.37	-3.9%
115th	Lao PDR	84.40	0.5%
116th	Guinea-Bissau	85.31	0.0%
117th	Lebanon	85.35	-1.7%
118th	Kosovo	85.37	-1.1%
119th	Thailand	85.38	-1.9%
120th	Liberia	86.06	0.5%
121st	Nigeria	86.63	0.9%
122nd	French Polynesia	86.78	-2.1%
123rd	Türkiye	87.25	-0.9%
124th	Eritrea	87.29	0.3%
125th	Burkina Faso	87.65	1.1%
126th	Central African Republic	87.87	0.6%
127th	Papua New Guinea	88.06	-0.6%
128th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	88.15	-1.5%
129th	Mozambique	88.20	0.6%
130th	Viet Nam	88.57	-1.5%
131st	Colombia	88.72	-2.1%
132nd	Congo, Democratic Republic of	88.79	0.6%
133rd	Cameroon	88.80	0.9%
134th	Senegal	88.86	0.4%
135th	Panama	89.03	-1.0%
136th	Pakistan	89.19	0.2%
137th	South Sudan	89.93	0.5%
138th	Afghanistan	90.24	0.8%
139th	American Samoa	90.25	-2.0%
140th	Saudi Arabia	90.66	-1.0%
141st	Tunisia	90.70	-0.8%
142nd	Ecuador	90.79	-0.7%
143rd	Chad	91.26	1.2%
144th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	91.42	-0.2%
145th	Côte d'Ivoire	91.46	0.3%
146th	Malawi	91.61	0.4%
147th	Northern Mariana Islands	91.73	-3.3%
148th	Seychelles	91.98	-2.3%
149th	Bangladesh	92.16	0.5%
150th	Djibouti	92.21	0.6%
151st	Maldives	92.24	-0.2%
152nd	Peru	92.33	-0.4%
153rd	Cambodia	92.63	-0.7%
154th	Kiribati	92.90	-1.8%
155th	Paraguay	92.93	-1.5%
156th	Turkmenistan	93.17	-1.9%
157th	Tajikistan	93.21	-0.9%
158th	Grenada	93.36	-2.2%
159th	Mauritania	93.41	0.9%
160th	Guatemala	93.53	-0.1%
161st	St. Martin (French part)	93.76	-0.1%
162nd	Vanuatu	94.00	-0.7%
163rd	Angola	94.16	-1.1%
164th	Togo	94.47	0.5%
165th	Namibia	94.92	0.7%
166th	Uzbekistan	95.28	-1.9%
167th	Congo, Republic of	95.55	0.6%
168th	Guyana	95.75	-1.5%
169th	Yemen, Republic of	95.78	1.7%
170th	Tanzania	95.90	0.5%
171st	Burundi	96.34	-0.9%
172nd	El Salvador	96.39	-1.2%
173rd	Dominican Republic	96.55	-1.9%
174th	Benin	96.55	0.7%
175th	Morocco	96.62	-0.9%
176th	Niger	97.11	-0.5%
177th	Tonga	97.53	-0.2%
178th	Palau	97.79	-2.5%
179th	St. Kitts and Nevis	98.43	-4.0%
180th	Rwanda	98.46	-1.3%
181st	Philippines	98.90	-1.2%
182nd	Nicaragua	99.39	-0.1%
183rd	Turks and Caicos Islands	99.65	-2.3%
184th	Algeria	99.95	-0.8%
185th	Uganda	100.05	0.9%
186th	Suriname	100.39	-3.3%
187th	Jamaica	100.41	-1.5%
188th	Madagascar	100.46	0.3%
189th	São Tomé and Principe	100.95	-0.5%
190th	Mexico	101.50	-0.3%
191st	Eswatini	101.98	0.6%
192nd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	101.99	-0.3%
193rd	Sudan	102.46	0.5%
194th	Comoros	102.46	0.9%
195th	Iraq	102.67	2.8%
196th	Honduras	102.80	-0.6%
197th	Cabo Verde	102.83	0.1%
198th	Oman	103.01	0.8%
199th	Solomon Islands	103.41	1.3%
200th	Micronesia, Federated States of	103.85	0.7%
201st	Mongolia	104.14	-1.0%
202nd	Ghana	104.32	-0.8%
203rd	Zimbabwe	105.43	0.0%
204th	Belize	106.48	-1.7%
205th	Syrian Arab Republic	106.88	0.0%
206th	Zambia	107.00	1.1%
207th	Marshall Islands	107.04	2.0%
208th	Dominica	107.38	-2.9%
209th	Botswana	107.51	-2.5%
210th	Libya	109.36	-4.0%
211th	Samoa	111.97	-1.9%
212th	Jordan	114.96	-0.2%
213th	Kenya	117.92	0.1%
214th	St. Lucia	119.53	-1.1%
215th	Macao SAR, China	174.51	90.0%

FAQ

What was Nigeria's dependency ratio in 1974?▾

Nigeria's dependency ratio in 1974 was 86.63. This ranked 121st globally.

How did Nigeria's dependency ratio change in 1974?▾

Nigeria's dependency ratio increased by 0.9% in 1974 compared to 1973.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 1974?▾

Macao SAR, China had the highest dependency ratio in 1974 at 174.51.

What is the dependency ratio of Nigeria in 1974?▾

The dependency ratio of Nigeria in 1974 was 86.63. This ranked 121st globally.

How does 1974 compare to 1973 for Nigeria's dependency ratio?▾

Nigeria's dependency ratio went from 85.90 in 1973 to 86.63 in 1974, a 0.9% increase.

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