List of Countries by Age Dependency Ratio (% of Working-age Population)

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. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age population.

Country Name	Country Code	2000	2010	2015
Afghanistan	AFG	103.25	99.46	86.95
Albania	ALB	59.59	47.89	44.81
Algeria	DZA	62.89	48.68	52.62
American Samoa	ASM			N/A
Andorra	AND			N/A
Angola	AGO	100.93	102.04	99.86
Antigua and Barbuda	ATG	56.98	50.30	45.65
Argentina	ARG	61.02	56.93	56.55
Armenia	ARM	55.90	45.06	41.26
Aruba	ABW	44.42	45.16	43.95
Australia	AUS	49.69	48.16	50.93
Austria	AUT	47.41	48.10	49.18
Azerbaijan	AZE	57.90	40.17	38.02
Bahamas, The	BHS	53.04	41.82	41.25
Bahrain	BHR	49.58	27.80	31.38
Bangladesh	BGD	69.20	58.26	52.49
Barbados	BRB	50.30	47.90	50.44
Belarus	BLR	46.95	40.46	42.96
Belgium	BEL	52.63	51.42	54.25
Belize	BLZ	80.66	65.32	56.78
Benin	BEN	93.57	86.22	81.98
Bermuda	BMU			N/A
Bhutan	BTN	79.94	52.89	46.90
Bolivia	BOL	76.62	68.46	63.69
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BIH	43.15	39.19	40.73
Botswana	BWA	69.79	57.60	55.27
Brazil	BRA	53.21	47.18	44.66
British Virgin Islands	VGB			N/A
Brunei Darussalam	BRN	49.12	40.43	37.98
Bulgaria	BGR	47.61	46.68	51.91
Burkina Faso	BFA	98.16	95.23	92.18
Burundi	BDI	107.07	87.16	89.65
Cabo Verde	CPV	94.55	60.22	52.05
Cambodia	KHM	80.76	58.88	55.57
Cameroon	CMR	94.80	87.47	84.26
Canada	CAN	46.45	44.14	47.29
Cayman Islands	CYM			N/A
Chad	TCD	107.04	105.02	100.69
Channel Islands	CHI	45.99	45.18	47.01
Chile	CHL	52.26	46.06	45.24
China	CHN	46.45	34.52	36.58
Colombia	COL	56.92	47.61	45.62
Comoros	COM	88.56	78.62	75.65
Congo, Dem. Rep.	COD	97.94	97.58	95.91
Congo, Rep.	COG	82.86	84.16	86.19
Costa Rica	CRI	57.33	47.14	45.37
Cote d'Ivoire	CIV	86.15	87.38	83.49
Croatia	HRV	49.00	49.30	51.12
Cuba	CUB	46.34	43.14	43.43
Curacao	CUW	54.26	49.35	51.10
Cyprus	CYP	48.43	41.52	41.64
Czech Republic	CZE	43.22	42.12	49.52
Denmark	DNK	50.01	52.96	55.86
Djibouti	DJI	80.14	61.09	58.53
Dominica	DMA			N/A
Dominican Republic	DOM	67.17	60.02	57.76
Ecuador	ECU	65.93	58.32	55.58
Egypt, Arab Rep.	EGY	70.67	58.36	62.29
El Salvador	SLV	71.27	60.93	54.32
Equatorial Guinea	GNQ	87.45	75.51	72.85
Eritrea	ERI	92.72	80.70	N/A
Estonia	EST	48.37	48.49	53.49
Ethiopia	ETH	98.37	91.36	81.57
Euro area	EMU	48.33	51.05	54.34
European Union	EUU	48.78	49.72	53.27
Faroe Islands	FRO			N/A
Fiji	FJI	62.50	51.12	52.85
Finland	FIN	49.41	50.69	58.27
France	FRA	53.59	54.99	60.27
French Polynesia	PYF	56.37	43.90	42.23
Gabon	GAB	87.11	76.25	73.11
Gambia, The	GMB	94.55	95.62	94.17
Georgia	GEO	52.49	45.45	45.67
Germany	DEU	46.17	51.81	51.81
Ghana	GHA	80.02	74.31	73.04
Gibraltar	GIB			N/A
Greece	GRC	47.21	50.68	56.25
Greenland	GRL			N/A
Grenada	GRD	74.82	53.27	50.70
Guam	GUM	55.86	53.30	51.98
Guatemala	GTM	88.33	77.20	70.85
Guinea	GIN	91.03	86.74	83.81
Guinea-Bissau	GNB	89.08	80.61	78.45
Guyana	GUY	66.77	61.68	51.09
Haiti	HTI	79.88	67.62	62.26
Honduras	HND	86.47	67.41	57.77
Hong Kong SAR, China	HKG	39.30	33.29	37.03
Hungary	HUN	46.98	45.70	47.88
IBRD only	IBD	56.05	47.44	46.88
Iceland	ISL	53.52	49.40	51.59
India	IND	64.31	56.27	52.45
Indonesia	IDN	54.79	51.10	48.96
Iran, Islamic Rep.	IRN	64.36	39.65	40.19
Iraq	IRQ	86.68	82.27	78.70
Ireland	IRL	46.90	46.76	53.66
Isle of Man	IMN			N/A
Israel	ISR	61.58	60.44	64.13
Italy	ITA	47.96	52.59	56.54
Jamaica	JAM	67.76	55.10	48.63
Japan	JPN	46.64	56.82	64.47
Jordan	JOR	73.88	67.83	64.78
Kazakhstan	KAZ	52.59	44.88	50.27
Kenya	KEN	89.06	82.71	80.87
Kiribati	KIR	76.32	65.57	63.00
Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	PRK	46.93	45.87	44.31
Korea, Rep.	KOR	39.46	37.61	37.21
Kosovo	KSV		51.88	48.10
Kuwait	KWT	42.13	34.10	32.09
Kyrgyz Republic	KGZ	67.92	52.57	55.35
Lao PDR	LAO	88.26	68.52	62.81
Latvia	LVA	49.01	48.21	52.18
Lebanon	LBN	55.63	47.31	47.34
Lesotho	LSO	84.31	72.31	67.27
Liberia	LBR	86.32	86.63	82.87
Libya	LBY	58.04	49.40	52.38
Liechtenstein	LIE			N/A
Lithuania	LTU	50.41	47.63	50.07
Luxembourg	LUX	49.29	46.28	43.71
Macao SAR, China	MAC	43.27	24.88	28.21
Macedonia, FYR	MKD	46.54	41.67	41.39
Madagascar	MDG	94.06	86.06	80.33
Malawi	MWI	99.44	97.60	94.55
Malaysia	MYS	61.37	47.81	44.74
Maldives	MDV	79.92	50.60	47.45
Mali	MLI	99.10	99.24	100.18
Malta	MLT	48.18	47.84	50.78
Marshall Islands	MHL			N/A
Mauritania	MRT	85.36	79.03	76.14
Mauritius	MUS	46.84	41.99	40.62
Mexico	MEX	64.78	55.89	51.68
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	FSM	78.69	68.76	62.40
Moldova	MDA	48.98	36.36	34.57
Monaco	MCO			N/A
Mongolia	MNG	62.50	44.44	47.65
Montenegro	MNE	49.28	48.32	47.71
Morocco	MAR	63.42	51.78	50.13
Mozambique	MOZ	92.54	96.71	94.75
Myanmar	MMR	57.92	53.43	49.05
Namibia	NAM	77.84	71.01	67.27
Nauru	NRU			N/A
Nepal	NPL	81.14	72.84	61.84
Netherlands	NLD	47.14	49.08	53.27
New Caledonia	NCL	52.89	49.32	47.92
New Zealand	NZL	52.70	50.40	54.01
Nicaragua	NIC	76.89	60.06	54.13
Niger	NER	101.64	110.45	112.97
Nigeria	NGA	86.24	87.46	87.71
Northern Mariana Islands	MNP			N/A
Norway	NOR	54.27	51.09	52.21
OECD members	OED	50.66	50.32	52.60
Oman	OMN	65.61	41.39	30.04
Pakistan	PAK	82.46	68.36	65.30
Palau	PLW			N/A
Panama	PAN	59.92	55.15	53.37
Papua New Guinea	PNG	74.49	71.64	67.09
Paraguay	PRY	74.41	61.39	56.63
Peru	PER	64.58	55.18	53.19
Philippines	PHL	71.60	60.68	57.55
Poland	POL	46.44	39.77	43.84
Portugal	PRT	47.71	50.88	53.48
Puerto Rico	PRI	53.56	50.30	50.02
Qatar	QAT	38.12	17.03	20.05
Romania	ROU	47.37	46.33	48.89
Russian Federation	RUS	44.27	38.85	43.10
Rwanda	RWA	93.22	82.21	78.07
Samoa	WSM	82.47	76.45	73.99
San Marino	SMR			N/A
Sao Tome and Principe	STP	96.88	88.71	84.21
Saudi Arabia	SAU	67.23	49.68	45.87
Senegal	SEN	93.39	87.83	87.60
Serbia	SRB	52.52	47.82	50.11
Seychelles	SYC	57.18	42.53	43.52
Sierra Leone	SLE	87.63	85.37	81.93
Singapore	SGP	40.45	35.78	37.41
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	SXM			N/A
Slovak Republic	SVK	45.04	38.10	40.78
Slovenia	SVN	42.68	44.11	48.71
Solomon Islands	SLB	80.97	78.63	75.08
Somalia	SOM	100.43	102.08	98.13
South Africa	ZAF	63.52	56.23	52.14
South Sudan	SSD	91.82	87.70	83.66
Spain	ESP	45.79	46.55	50.76
Sri Lanka	LKA	49.21	48.71	51.23
St. Kitts and Nevis	KNA			N/A
St. Lucia	LCA	66.17	50.89	47.33
St. Martin (French part)	MAF			N/A
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	VCT	62.27	49.80	46.76
Sudan	SDN	87.66	82.47	78.04
Suriname	SUR	64.25	53.85	50.76
Eswatini(Swaziland)	SWZ	90.67	72.95	69.31
Sweden	SWE	55.51	53.16	59.30
Switzerland	CHE	48.67	46.98	48.85
Syrian Arab Republic	SYR	79.25	64.31	70.03
Tajikistan	TJK	86.69	63.54	60.89
Tanzania	TZA	91.57	93.08	93.80
Thailand	THA	43.97	39.07	39.24
Timor-Leste	TLS	109.60	83.64	92.27
Togo	TGO	89.36	83.65	81.83
Tonga	TON	78.73	76.35	74.33
Trinidad and Tobago	TTO	47.30	40.87	43.25
Tunisia	TUN	56.90	44.52	44.82
Turkey	TUR	58.01	51.31	49.72
Turkmenistan	TKM	68.35	50.04	47.88
Turks and Caicos Islands	TCA			N/A
Tuvalu	TUV			N/A
Uganda	UGA	108.45	106.19	102.35
Ukraine	UKR	44.48	42.57	43.34
United Arab Emirates	ARE	36.18	16.33	17.75
United Kingdom	GBR	53.55	51.22	55.12
United States	USA	50.55	48.73	50.91
Uruguay	URY	60.38	57.36	55.88
Uzbekistan	UZB	70.95	51.00	49.65
Vanuatu	VUT	81.23	72.86	68.72
Venezuela, RB	VEN	62.55	54.26	52.37
Vietnam	VNM	61.50	43.31	42.51
Virgin Islands (U.S.)	VIR	52.65	52.38	61.20
West Bank and Gaza	PSE	100.41	82.33	76.00
World	WLD	60.16	54.07	53.90
Yemen, Rep.	YEM	105.74	81.61	75.60
Zambia	ZMB	97.12	98.15	95.40
Zimbabwe	ZWE	84.88	80.99	80.39

Last Updated on : December 01, 2016