Data · Population & urbanization
Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population): Vietnam, 1960–2025
- Latest (2025)
- 47.8 %
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- SP.POP.DPND
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
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.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1960 to 2025 (66 years of data). It moved from 84.9 to 47.8 %, a change of -43.7%. The highest value was 95.2 in 1967 and the lowest 43.1 in 2012. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (%) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 47.8 |
| 2024 | 47.6 |
| 2023 | 47.6 |
| 2022 | 47.4 |
| 2021 | 47.2 |
| 2020 | 47.0 |
| 2019 | 46.6 |
| 2018 | 46.1 |
| 2017 | 45.3 |
| 2016 | 44.4 |
| 2015 | 43.8 |
| 2014 | 43.4 |
| 2013 | 43.1 |
| 2012 | 43.1 |
| 2011 | 43.4 |
| 2010 | 44.2 |
| 2009 | 45.2 |
| 2008 | 46.4 |
| 2007 | 47.9 |
| 2006 | 49.5 |
| 2005 | 51.3 |
| 2004 | 53.1 |
| 2003 | 54.7 |
| 2002 | 56.2 |
| 2001 | 58.0 |
| 2000 | 59.9 |
| 1999 | 62.3 |
| 1998 | 64.8 |
| 1997 | 67.3 |
| 1996 | 69.4 |
| 1995 | 71.4 |
| 1994 | 73.1 |
| 1993 | 74.6 |
| 1992 | 76.0 |
| 1991 | 77.3 |
| 1990 | 78.4 |
| 1989 | 79.5 |
| 1988 | 80.7 |
| 1987 | 81.9 |
| 1986 | 82.7 |
| 1985 | 83.1 |
| 1984 | 83.4 |
| 1983 | 83.5 |
| 1982 | 83.5 |
| 1981 | 83.6 |
| 1980 | 83.9 |
| 1979 | 84.2 |
| 1978 | 84.8 |
| 1977 | 85.9 |
| 1976 | 86.5 |
| 1975 | 87.2 |
| 1974 | 88.6 |
| 1973 | 89.9 |
| 1972 | 91.2 |
| 1971 | 92.4 |
| 1970 | 93.3 |
| 1969 | 94.2 |
| 1968 | 94.8 |
| 1967 | 95.2 |
| 1966 | 95.0 |
| 1965 | 94.4 |
| 1964 | 94.0 |
| 1963 | 92.6 |
| 1962 | 90.0 |
| 1961 | 87.5 |
| 1960 | 84.9 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2025 | 47.8 |
| Thailand | 2025 | 43.7 |
| Indonesia | 2025 | 46.6 |
| Malaysia | 2025 | 41.5 |
| Philippines | 2025 | 48.9 |
| Singapore | 2025 | 35.0 |
| Cambodia | 2025 | 55.9 |
| Laos | 2025 | 53.0 |
| Myanmar | 2025 | 46.2 |
| China | 2025 | 43.5 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.DPND?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name sp_pop_dpnd, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.