Country age profiles and population

World Bank WDI age shares, population and derived age-group ratios for countries and aggregates, with the ten most populous countries in 2025.

  • World Bank countries/economies and overlapping aggregate groups, 1960–2025; chart selects the ten most populous non-aggregate economies in 2025.
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What the chart shows

Among the ten most populous countries in the 2025 estimates, Nigeria has 13.2 children aged 0–14 per adult aged 65+, while the United States has 0.93.

Both shares use the total population as denominator, including people aged 15–64. Dividing the unrounded child share by the older-adult share gives an age-group ratio. It does not describe family size or children per parent.

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Child-to-older-adult ratios for the ten most populous countries in 2025, ordered by ratio: Nigeria is 13.2, Ethiopia 11.8, and the United States 0.93. A ratio of one means equal numbers in the two age groups.
Desktop original; mobile chart. Age structure comes from UN World Population Prospects via WDI. These are modeled or interpolated population estimates, not a finalized 2025 census, and establish no causal or policy conclusion.

Method

Decode frozen WDI source-2 API JSON, map source entity IDs through official country metadata, outer-join by entity and year and retain nulls as blank CSV fields. Select the ten non-aggregate economies with greatest 2025 population, then order by children_pct divided by older_pct. Working-age share is 100 minus both age shares, for ages 15–64.

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  • Age structure comes from UN World Population Prospects via WDI. These are modeled or interpolated population estimates, not a finalized 2025 census, and establish no causal or policy conclusion.
  • Both age shares use total population as their denominator; the displayed ratio uses unrounded shares and can differ from ratios of rounded labels. Working-age share is an age band, not employment status.
  • All ten selected economies have both age shares; none is discarded. Source country/economy rows can include territories. World Bank three-character identifiers are not invariably ISO codes.
  • Aggregate rows overlap and must not be summed. All 17,556 entity-year rows for 1960–2025 remain in the full CSV, including missing indicators; blanks are never zero-filled.
  • The snapshot was retrieved on 14 October 2026, with WDI last updated on 8 October 2026. No interpolation, smoothing, imputation, winsorization or manual numerical edits were applied by Meplar.
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