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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.
People Statistics > Age dependency ratio > dependents to working-age population (most recent) by country
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Rank
Countries
Amount
(top to bottom)
Date
#1
Uganda :
1.12
2005 ...
#2
Mali :
1.04
2005 ...
#3
Niger :
1.04
2005 ...
#4
Guinea-Bissau :
1.02
2005 ...
#5
Chad :
1.01
2005 ...
#6
Malawi :
1.01
2005 ...
#7
Congo, Republic of the :
1
2005 ...
#8
Congo, Democratic Republic of the :
1
2005 ...
#9
Burkina Faso :
1
2005 ...
#10
Liberia :
0.97
2005 ...
#11
Angola :
0.96
2005 ...
#12
Zambia :
0.95
2005 ...
#13
Yemen :
0.95
2005 ...
#14
Afghanistan :
0.94
1989 ...
#15
Equatorial Guinea :
0.94
2005 ...
#16
Burundi :
0.91
2005 ...
#17
Guatemala :
0.91
2005 ...
#18
Nigeria :
0.9
2005 ...
#19
Guinea :
0.9
2005 ...
#20
Mozambique :
0.9
2005 ...
#21
Ethiopia :
0.9
2005 ...
#22
Central African Republic :
0.89
2005 ...
#23
Eritrea :
0.89
2005 ...
#24
Madagascar :
0.89
2005 ...
#25
Somalia :
0.88
2005 ...
#26
Benin :
0.88
2005 ...
#27
Togo :
0.87
2005 ...
#28
Mauritania :
0.87
2005 ...
#29
Sierra Leone :
0.86
2005 ...
#30
Tanzania :
0.85
2005 ...
#31
Rwanda :
0.85
2005 ...
#32
Iraq :
0.84
1999 ...
#33
Kenya :
0.84
2005 ...
#34
Senegal :
0.84
2005 ...
#35
Samoa :
0.83
2005 ...
#36
Namibia :
0.82
2005 ...
#37
Côte d'Ivoire :
0.82
2005 ...
#38
Comoros :
0.81
2005 ...
#39
Cameroon :
0.81
2005 ...
#40
Gabon :
0.8
2005 ...
#41
Djibouti :
0.8
2005 ...
#42
Laos :
0.8
2005 ...
#43
Swaziland :
0.8
2005 ...
#44
Maldives :
0.79
2005 ...
#45
Lesotho :
0.78
2005 ...
#46
Cape Verde :
0.78
2005 ...
#47
Gambia, The :
0.78
2005 ...
#48
East Timor :
0.78
2005 ...
#49
São Tomé and Príncipe :
0.78
2005 ...
#50
Zimbabwe :
0.77
2005 ...
#51
Vanuatu :
0.76
2005 ...
#52
Solomon Islands :
0.76
2005 ...
#53
Honduras :
0.76
2005 ...
#54
Bhutan :
0.75
2005 ...
#55
Tajikistan :
0.75
2005 ...
#56
Sudan :
0.75
2005 ...
#57
Ghana :
0.74
2005 ...
#58
Bolivia :
0.74
2005 ...
#59
Micronesia, Federated States of :
0.74
2005 ...
#60
Papua New Guinea :
0.74
2005 ...
#61
Nepal :
0.74
2005 ...
#62
Nicaragua :
0.73
2005 ...
#63
Pakistan :
0.73
2005 ...
#64
Tonga :
0.72
2005 ...
#65
Haiti :
0.71
2005 ...
#66
Paraguay :
0.7
2005 ...
#67
Belize :
0.7
2005 ...
#68
Botswana :
0.69
2005 ...
#69
Jordan :
0.68
2005 ...
#70
Cambodia :
0.68
2005 ...
#71
Saudi Arabia :
0.67
2005 ...
#72
Syria :
0.67
2005 ...
#73
El Salvador :
0.65
2005 ...
#74
Bangladesh :
0.64
2005 ...
#75
Philippines :
0.64
2005 ...
#76
Jamaica :
0.63
2005 ...
#77
Ecuador :
0.62
2005 ...
#78
Egypt :
0.62
2005 ...
#79
Uzbekistan :
0.61
2005 ...
#80
Israel :
0.61
2005 ...
#81
Kyrgyzstan :
0.6
2005 ...
#82
India :
0.6
2005 ...
#83
Peru :
0.6
2005 ...
#84
Uruguay :
0.6
2005 ...
#85
Oman :
0.59
2005 ...
#86
Malaysia :
0.59
2005 ...
#87
Argentina :
0.58
2005 ...
#88
Dominican Republic :
0.58
2005 ...
#89
South Africa :
0.58
2005 ...
#90
Mexico :
0.57
2005 ...
#91
Panama :
0.57
2005 ...
#92
Guam :
0.57
2005 ...
#93
Venezuela :
0.57
2005 ...
#94
Colombia :
0.57
2005 ...
#95
Turkmenistan :
0.57
2005 ...
#96
Suriname :
0.57
2005 ...
#97
Morocco :
0.56
2005 ...
#98
Saint Lucia :
0.56
2005 ...
#99
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines :
0.56
2005 ...
#100
Lebanon :
0.56
2005 ...
#101
Fiji :
0.55
2005 ...
#102
Vietnam :
0.54
2005 ...
#103
Albania :
0.54
2005 ...
#104
Turkey :
0.53
2005 ...
#105
France :
0.53
2005 ...
#106
Bahamas, The :
0.53
2005 ...
#107
Guyana :
0.53
2005 ...
#108
Sweden :
0.53
2005 ...
#109
Norway :
0.53
2005 ...
#110
Virgin Islands :
0.53
2005 ...
#111
Costa Rica :
0.52
2005 ...
#112
Mongolia :
0.52
2005 ...
#113
Puerto Rico :
0.52
2005 ...
#114
Belgium :
0.52
2005 ...
#115
Libya :
0.52
2005 ...
#116
Burma :
0.52
2005 ...
#117
New Caledonia :
0.52
2005 ...
#118
Algeria :
0.52
2005 ...
#119
Brazil :
0.51
2005 ...
#120
Denmark :
0.51
2005 ...
#121
Japan :
0.51
2005 ...
#122
United Kingdom :
0.51
2005 ...
#123
Italy :
0.51
2005 ...
#124
Indonesia :
0.51
2005 ...
#125
New Zealand :
0.51
2005 ...
#126
Iceland :
0.51
2005 ...
#127
Georgia :
0.5
2005