Sub-Saharan 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 | Uganda | 1.12 | 2005 | ||
=2 | Niger | 1.04 | 2005 | ||
=2 | Mali | 1.04 | 2005 | ||
4 | Guinea-Bissau | 1.02 | 2005 | ||
=5 | Chad | 1.01 | 2005 | ||
=5 | Malawi | 1.01 | 2005 | ||
=7 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 1 | 2005 | ||
=7 | Burkina Faso | 1 | 2005 | ||
9 | Liberia | 0.97 | 2005 | ||
10 | Angola | 0.96 | 2005 | ||
11 | Zambia | 0.95 | 2005 | ||
12 | Equatorial Guinea | 0.94 | 2005 | ||
13 | Burundi | 0.91 | 2005 | ||
=14 | Mozambique | 0.9 | 2005 | ||
=14 | Nigeria | 0.9 | 2005 | ||
=14 | Guinea | 0.9 | 2005 | ||
=14 | Ethiopia | 0.9 | 2005 | ||
=18 | Eritrea | 0.89 | 2005 | ||
=18 | Central African Republic | 0.89 | 2005 | ||
=18 | Madagascar | 0.89 | 2005 | ||
=21 | Benin | 0.88 | 2005 | ||
=21 | Somalia | 0.88 | 2005 | ||
=23 | Togo | 0.87 | 2005 | ||
=23 | Mauritania | 0.87 | 2005 | ||
25 | Sierra Leone | 0.86 | 2005 | ||
=26 | Rwanda | 0.85 | 2005 | ||
=26 | Tanzania | 0.85 | 2005 | ||
=28 | Kenya | 0.84 | 2005 | ||
=28 | Senegal | 0.84 | 2005 | ||
=30 | Namibia | 0.82 | 2005 | ||
=30 | Cote d'Ivoire | 0.82 | 2005 | ||
=32 | Comoros | 0.81 | 2005 | ||
=32 | Cameroon | 0.81 | 2005 | ||
=34 | Djibouti | 0.8 | 2005 | ||
=34 | Gabon | 0.8 | 2005 | ||
=34 | Swaziland | 0.8 | 2005 | ||
=37 | Sao Tome and Principe | 0.78 | 2005 | ||
=37 | The Gambia | 0.78 | 2005 | ||
=37 | Cape Verde | 0.78 | 2005 | ||
=37 | Lesotho | 0.78 | 2005 | ||
41 | Zimbabwe | 0.77 | 2005 | ||
42 | Sudan | 0.75 | 2005 | ||
43 | Ghana | 0.74 | 2005 | ||
44 | Botswana | 0.69 | 2005 | ||
45 | South Africa | 0.58 | 2005 | ||
46 | Mauritius | 0.45 | 2005 |