Middle Eastern and North Africa Compared by People > Age dependency ratio > Dependents to working-age population
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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. For example, 0.7 means there are 7 dependents for every 10 working-age people.
CONTENTS
# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
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1 | Yemen | 0.95 | 2005 | ||
2 | Iraq | 0.84 | 1999 | ||
3 | Jordan | 0.68 | 2005 | ||
=4 | Syria | 0.67 | 2005 | ||
=4 | Saudi Arabia | 0.67 | 2005 | ||
6 | Egypt | 0.62 | 2005 | ||
7 | Israel | 0.61 | 2005 | ||
8 | Oman | 0.59 | 2005 | ||
=9 | Morocco | 0.56 | 2005 | ||
=9 | Lebanon | 0.56 | 2005 | ||
=11 | Algeria | 0.52 | 2005 | ||
=11 | Libya | 0.52 | 2005 | ||
13 | Iran | 0.5 | 2005 | ||
14 | Tunisia | 0.47 | 2005 | ||
15 | Bahrain | 0.43 | 2005 | ||
16 | Kuwait | 0.35 | 2005 | ||
=17 | Qatar | 0.3 | 2005 | ||
=17 | United Arab Emirates | 0.3 | 2005 |