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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| =1 | Niger | 1.04 | 2005 | ||
| =1 | Mali | 1.04 | 2005 | ||
| 3 | Chad | 1.01 | 2005 | ||
| 4 | Burkina Faso | 1 | 2005 | ||
| 5 | Yemen | 0.95 | 2005 | ||
| 6 | Afghanistan | 0.94 | 1989 | ||
| =7 | Nigeria | 0.9 | 2005 | ||
| =7 | Guinea | 0.9 | 2005 | ||
| 9 | Somalia | 0.88 | 2005 | ||
| 10 | Mauritania | 0.87 | 2005 | ||
| 11 | Sierra Leone | 0.86 | 2005 | ||
| =12 | Senegal | 0.84 | 2005 | ||
| =12 | Iraq | 0.84 | 1999 | ||
| 14 | Comoros | 0.81 | 2005 | ||
| 15 | Djibouti | 0.8 | 2005 | ||
| 16 | Maldives | 0.79 | 2005 | ||
| 17 | The Gambia | 0.78 | 2005 | ||
| =18 | Sudan | 0.75 | 2005 | ||
| =18 | Tajikistan | 0.75 | 2005 | ||
| 20 | Pakistan | 0.73 | 2005 | ||
| 21 | Jordan | 0.68 | 2005 | ||
| =22 | Saudi Arabia | 0.67 | 2005 | ||
| =22 | Syria | 0.67 | 2005 | ||
| 24 | Bangladesh | 0.64 | 2005 | ||
| 25 | Egypt | 0.62 | 2005 | ||
| 26 | Uzbekistan | 0.61 | 2005 | ||
| 27 | Kyrgyzstan | 0.6 | 2005 | ||
| =28 | Oman | 0.59 | 2005 | ||
| =28 | Malaysia | 0.59 | 2005 | ||
| 30 | Turkmenistan | 0.57 | 2005 | ||
| =31 | Lebanon | 0.56 | 2005 | ||
| =31 | Morocco | 0.56 | 2005 | ||
| 33 | Albania | 0.54 | 2005 | ||
| 34 | Turkey | 0.53 | 2005 | ||
| =35 | Libya | 0.52 | 2005 | ||
| =35 | Algeria | 0.52 | 2005 | ||
| 37 | Indonesia | 0.51 | 2005 | ||
| 38 | Iran | 0.5 | 2005 | ||
| =39 | Azerbaijan | 0.49 | 2005 | ||
| =39 | Brunei | 0.49 | 2005 | ||
| 41 | Tunisia | 0.47 | 2005 | ||
| 42 | Kazakhstan | 0.46 | 2005 | ||
| 43 | Bahrain | 0.43 | 2005 | ||
| 44 | Kuwait | 0.35 | 2005 | ||
| =45 | Qatar | 0.3 | 2005 | ||
| =45 | United Arab Emirates | 0.3 | 2005 |