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Sub-Saharan Africa Compared by People > Age dependency ratio > Dependents to working-age population

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
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

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