Afghanistan vs Nauru: Age dependency breakdown

Afghanistan

4.4%

in 2023

Nauru

4.6%

in 2023

Afghanistan rank

227th

Nauru rank

224th

Age dependency breakdown over time

Nauru currently reports 4.6% against 4.4% in Afghanistan, a difference of 0.2%.

That makes Nauru's figure about 1.1 times Afghanistan's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Nauru ahead.

Afghanistan ranks 227th and Nauru ranks 224th of 236 countries.

Indicator: Age dependency breakdown
Unit: %
Source: UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 236 places, 17,464 data points, 1950–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The number of people aged 65 and over per 100 working-age people (aged 15 to 64).