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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.
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# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
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1 | Samoa | 0.83 | 2005 | ||
2 | Laos | 0.8 | 2005 | ||
3 | East Timor | 0.78 | 2005 | ||
=4 | Vanuatu | 0.76 | 2005 | ||
=4 | Solomon Islands | 0.76 | 2005 | ||
=6 | Papua New Guinea | 0.74 | 2005 | ||
=6 | Federated States of Micronesia | 0.74 | 2005 | ||
8 | Tonga | 0.72 | 2005 | ||
9 | Cambodia | 0.68 | 2005 | ||
10 | Philippines | 0.64 | 2005 | ||
11 | Malaysia | 0.59 | 2005 | ||
12 | Fiji | 0.55 | 2005 | ||
13 | Vietnam | 0.54 | 2005 | ||
=14 | Mongolia | 0.52 | 2005 | ||
=14 | Burma | 0.52 | 2005 | ||
=16 | Indonesia | 0.51 | 2005 | ||
=16 | New Zealand | 0.51 | 2005 | ||
=16 | Japan | 0.51 | 2005 | ||
19 | Brunei | 0.49 | 2005 | ||
20 | Australia | 0.48 | 2005 | ||
21 | North Korea | 0.47 | 2005 | ||
22 | Thailand | 0.45 | 2005 | ||
23 | China | 0.41 | 2005 | ||
=24 | Singapore | 0.39 | 2005 | ||
=24 | South Korea | 0.39 | 2005 |
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