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People Statistics > Age dependency ratio > dependents to working-age population (most recent) by country

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Rank   Countries  Amount  Date  
# 1   Uganda: 1.12   2005 Time series
= 2   Mali: 1.04   2005 Time series
= 2   Niger: 1.04   2005 Time series
# 4   Guinea-Bissau: 1.02   2005 Time series
= 5   Chad: 1.01   2005 Time series
= 5   Malawi: 1.01   2005 Time series
= 7   Congo, Republic of the: 1   2005 Time series
= 7   Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 1   2005 Time series
= 7   Burkina Faso: 1   2005 Time series
# 10   Liberia: 0.97   2005 Time series
# 11   Angola: 0.96   2005 Time series
= 12   Zambia: 0.95   2005 Time series
= 12   Yemen: 0.95   2005 Time series
= 14   Afghanistan: 0.94   1989 Time series
= 14   Equatorial Guinea: 0.94   2005 Time series
= 16   Burundi: 0.91   2005 Time series
= 16   Guatemala: 0.91   2005 Time series
= 18   Nigeria: 0.9   2005 Time series
= 18   Guinea: 0.9   2005 Time series
= 18   Mozambique: 0.9   2005 Time series
= 18   Ethiopia: 0.9   2005 Time series
= 22   Central African Republic: 0.89   2005 Time series
= 22   Eritrea: 0.89   2005 Time series
= 22   Madagascar: 0.89   2005 Time series
= 25   Somalia: 0.88   2005 Time series
= 25   Benin: 0.88   2005 Time series
= 27   Togo: 0.87   2005 Time series
= 27   Mauritania: 0.87   2005 Time series
# 29   Sierra Leone: 0.86   2005 Time series
= 30   Tanzania: 0.85   2005 Time series
= 30   Rwanda: 0.85   2005 Time series
= 32   Iraq: 0.84   1999 Time series
= 32   Kenya: 0.84   2005 Time series
= 32   Senegal: 0.84   2005 Time series
# 35   Samoa: 0.83   2005 Time series
= 36   Namibia: 0.82   2005 Time series
= 36   Côte d'Ivoire: 0.82   2005 Time series
= 38   Comoros: 0.81   2005 Time series
= 38   Cameroon: 0.81   2005 Time series
= 40   Gabon: 0.8   2005 Time series
= 40   Djibouti: 0.8   2005 Time series
= 40   Laos: 0.8   2005 Time series
= 40   Swaziland: 0.8   2005 Time series
# 44   Maldives: 0.79   2005 Time series
= 45   Lesotho: 0.78   2005 Time series
= 45   Cape Verde: 0.78   2005 Time series
= 45   Gambia, The: 0.78   2005 Time series
= 45   East Timor: 0.78   2005 Time series
= 45   São Tomé and Príncipe: 0.78   2005 Time series
# 50   Zimbabwe: 0.77   2005 Time series
= 51   Vanuatu: 0.76   2005 Time series
= 51   Solomon Islands: 0.76   2005 Time series
= 51   Honduras: 0.76   2005 Time series
= 54   Bhutan: 0.75   2005 Time series
= 54   Tajikistan: 0.75   2005 Time series
= 54   Sudan: 0.75   2005 Time series
= 57   Ghana: 0.74   2005 Time series
= 57   Bolivia: 0.74   2005 Time series
= 57   Micronesia, Federated States of: 0.74   2005 Time series
= 57   Papua New Guinea: 0.74   2005 Time series
= 57   Nepal: 0.74   2005 Time series
= 62   Nicaragua: 0.73   2005 Time series
= 62   Pakistan: 0.73   2005 Time series
# 64   Tonga: 0.72   2005 Time series
# 65   Haiti: 0.71   2005 Time series
= 66   Paraguay: 0.7   2005 Time series
= 66   Belize: 0.7   2005 Time series
# 68   Botswana: 0.69   2005 Time series
= 69   Jordan: 0.68   2005 Time series
= 69   Cambodia: 0.68   2005 Time series
= 71   Saudi Arabia: 0.67   2005 Time series
= 71   Syria: 0.67   2005 Time series
# 73   El Salvador: 0.65   2005 Time series
= 74   Bangladesh: 0.64   2005 Time series
= 74   Philippines: 0.64   2005 Time series
# 76   Jamaica: 0.63   2005 Time series
= 77   Ecuador: 0.62   2005 Time series
= 77   Egypt: 0.62   2005 Time series
= 79   Uzbekistan: 0.61   2005 Time series
= 79   Israel: 0.61   2005 Time series
= 81   Kyrgyzstan: 0.6   2005 Time series
= 81   India: 0.6   2005 Time series
= 81   Peru: 0.6   2005 Time series
= 81   Uruguay: 0.6   2005 Time series
= 85   Oman: 0.59   2005 Time series
= 85   Malaysia: 0.59   2005 Time series
= 87   Argentina: 0.58   2005 Time series
= 87   Dominican Republic: 0.58   2005 Time series
= 87   South Africa: 0.58   2005 Time series
= 90   Mexico: 0.57   2005 Time series
= 90   Panama: 0.57   2005 Time series
= 90   Guam: 0.57   2005 Time series
= 90   Venezuela: 0.57   2005 Time series
= 90   Colombia: 0.57   2005 Time series
= 90   Turkmenistan: 0.57   2005 Time series
= 90   Suriname: 0.57   2005 Time series
= 97   Morocco: 0.56   2005 Time series
= 97   Saint Lucia: 0.56   2005 Time series
= 97   Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 0.56   2005 Time series
= 97   Lebanon: 0.56   2005 Time series
# 101   Fiji: 0.55   2005 Time series
= 102   Vietnam: 0.54   2005 Time series
= 102   Albania: 0.54   2005 Time series
= 104   Turkey: 0.53   2005 Time series
= 104   France: 0.53   2005 Time series
= 104   Bahamas, The: 0.53   2005 Time series
= 104   Guyana: 0.53   2005 Time series
= 104   Sweden: 0.53   2005 Time series
= 104   Norway: 0.53   2005 Time series
= 104   Virgin Islands: 0.53   2005 Time series
= 111   Costa Rica: 0.52   2005 Time series
= 111   Mongolia: 0.52   2005 Time series
= 111   Puerto Rico: 0.52   2005 Time series
= 111   Belgium: 0.52   2005 Time series
= 111   Libya: 0.52   2005 Time series
= 111   Burma: 0.52   2005 Time series
= 111   New Caledonia: 0.52   2005 Time series
= 111   Algeria: 0.52   2005 Time series
= 119   Brazil: 0.51   2005 Time series
= 119   Denmark: 0.51   2005 Time series
= 119   Japan: 0.51   2005 Time series
= 119   United Kingdom: 0.51   2005 Time series
= 119   Italy: 0.51   2005 Time series
= 119   Indonesia: 0.51   2005 Time series
= 119   New Zealand: 0.51   2005 Time series
= 119   Iceland: 0.51   2005 Time series
= 127   Georgia: 0.5   2005 Time series
= 127   Iran: 0.5   2005 Time series
= 127   Finland: 0.5   2005 Time series
= 130   United States: 0.49   2005 Time series
= 130   French Polynesia: 0.49   2005 Time series
= 130   Azerbaijan: 0.49   2005 Time series
= 130   Chile: 0.49   2005 Time series
= 130   Luxembourg: 0.49   2005 Time series
= 130   Germany: 0.49   2005 Time series
= 130   Armenia: 0.49   2005 Time series
= 130   Brunei: 0.49   2005 Time series
= 130   Portugal: 0.49   2005 Time series
= 130   Croatia: 0.49   2005 Time series
= 140   Australia: 0.48   2005 Time series
= 140   Netherlands Antilles: 0.48   2005 Time series
= 140   Serbia and Montenegro: 0.48   2005 Time series
= 140   Netherlands: 0.48   2005 Time series
= 140   Greece: 0.48   2005 Time series
= 140   Switzerland: 0.48   2005 Time series
= 140   Austria: 0.48   2005 Time series
= 147   Lithuania: 0.47   2005 Time series
= 147   Korea, North: 0.47   2005 Time series
= 147   Tunisia: 0.47   2005 Time series
= 147   Cyprus: 0.47   2005 Time series
= 151   Latvia: 0.46   2005 Time series
= 151   Estonia: 0.46   2005 Time series
= 151   Sri Lanka: 0.46   2005 Time series
= 151   Kazakhstan: 0.46   2005 Time series
= 155   Ireland: 0.45   2005 Time series
= 155   Spain: 0.45   2005 Time series
= 155   Hungary: 0.45   2005 Time series
= 155   Malta: 0.45   2005 Time series
= 155   Ukraine: 0.45   2005 Time series
= 155   Thailand: 0.45   2005 Time series
= 155   Mauritius: 0.45   2005 Time series
= 162   Bosnia and Herzegovina: 0.44   2005 Time series
= 162   Bulgaria: 0.44   2005 Time series
= 162   Canada: 0.44   2005 Time series
= 162   Macedonia, Republic of: 0.44   2005 Time series
= 166   Romania: 0.43   2005 Time series
= 166   Belarus: 0.43   2005 Time series
= 166   Cuba: 0.43   2005 Time series
= 166   Bahrain: 0.43   2005 Time series
# 170   Slovenia: 0.42   2005 Time series
= 171   Barbados: 0.41   2005 Time series
= 171   Russia: 0.41   2005 Time series
= 171   China: 0.41   2005 Time series
= 171   Poland: 0.41   2005 Time series
= 171   Czech Republic: 0.41   2005 Time series
= 171   Trinidad and Tobago: 0.41   2005 Time series
= 177   Moldova: 0.4   2005 Time series
= 177   Slovakia: 0.4   2005 Time series
= 179   Korea, South: 0.39   2005 Time series
= 179   Singapore: 0.39   2005 Time series
# 181   Hong Kong: 0.36   2005 Time series
# 182   Kuwait: 0.35   2005 Time series
# 183   Macau: 0.32   2005 Time series
= 184   Qatar: 0.3   2005 Time series
= 184   United Arab Emirates: 0.3   2005 Time series
Weighted average: 0.6   



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.

SOURCE: World Development Indicators database

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