Age dependency ratio - Country rankings
(measure: percent; Source: The World Bank)
* indicates monthly or quarterly data series
Age dependency ratio - Country rankings:
The average for 2018 was 58.56 percent.The highest value was in Niger: 111.31 percent and the lowest value was in the United Arab Emirates: 17.78 percent. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.
Dependent people as percent of the working age population, 2018
(percent, Source: The World Bank, TheGlobalEconomy.com)
(percent, Source: The World Bank, TheGlobalEconomy.com)
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. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age population.
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