Rank	Country	Value
1	Central African Republic	104.73 %
2	Monaco	98.57 %
3	Niger	96.83 %
4	Somalia	96.79 %
5	Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	96.50 %
6	Mali	94.27 %
7	Chad	92.92 %
8	Mozambique	89.51 %
9	Burundi	89.50 %
10	Angola	89.41 %
11	Mauritania	84.98 %
12	Uganda	84.27 %
13	Tanzania, United Republic of	83.76 %
14	Afghanistan	82.78 %
15	Benin	80.74 %
16	Zimbabwe	80.10 %
17	Burkina Faso	80.03 %
18	Guinea	79.71 %
19	Samoa	79.68 %
20	Cameroon	79.33 %
21	Nigeria	78.77 %
22	Sudan	77.85 %
23	Yemen	77.47 %
24	Côte d'Ivoire	76.93 %
25	Congo	76.78 %
26	Zambia	76.69 %
27	Gambia	76.45 %
28	Malawi	76.34 %
29	Liberia	74.93 %
30	Togo	74.64 %
31	Madagascar	74.40 %
32	Vanuatu	74.25 %
33	Eritrea	73.43 %
34	Ethiopia	73.28 %
35	Tonga	72.77 %
36	Guinea-Bissau	72.35 %
37	South Sudan	72.14 %
38	Palestine, State of	72.07 %
39	Senegal	71.82 %
40	Sao Tome and Principe	71.61 %
41	Comoros	71.21 %
42	Sierra Leone	70.45 %
43	Rwanda	70.32 %
44	Japan	70.12 %
45	Equatorial Guinea	69.41 %
46	Pakistan	69.39 %
47	Namibia	68.50 %
48	Nauru	68.43 %
49	Solomon Islands	68.38 %
50	Gabon	68.26 %
51	Tajikistan	66.98 %
52	Iraq	66.65 %
53	Israel	66.56 %
54	Kenya	66.12 %
55	Saint Martin (French part)	65.95 %
56	Tuvalu	65.60 %
57	Ghana	65.36 %
58	Virgin Islands, U.S.	64.44 %
59	Marshall Islands	64.24 %
60	Timor-Leste	63.76 %
61	Kiribati	63.75 %
62	France	63.00 %
63	Guam	62.83 %
64	Finland	62.68 %
65	Lesotho	62.27 %
66	Kazakhstan	61.36 %
67	Kyrgyzstan	61.35 %
68	Micronesia, Federated States of	60.76 %
69	Sweden	60.60 %
70	Faroe Islands	60.52 %
71	Eswatini	60.29 %
72	Isle of Man	59.68 %
73	Portugal	59.57 %
74	Mongolia	59.57 %
75	Greece	59.13 %
76	Latvia	59.11 %
77	Croatia	59.01 %
78	Egypt	59.01 %
79	Germany	59.00 %
80	Serbia	58.72 %
81	Uzbekistan	58.65 %
82	Papua New Guinea	58.59 %
83	Estonia	58.57 %
84	Algeria	58.51 %
85	United Kingdom	57.94 %
86	Denmark	57.64 %
87	Belgium	57.61 %
88	Italy	57.52 %
89	Bulgaria	57.49 %
90	Slovenia	57.45 %
91	Georgia	57.32 %
92	Guatemala	57.30 %
93	Puerto Rico	57.10 %
94	Lebanon	57.05 %
95	Czechia	56.84 %
96	Botswana	56.66 %
97	Turkmenistan	56.34 %
98	Moldova, Republic of	56.25 %
99	Montenegro	56.15 %
100	Cambodia	56.14 %
101	Guyana	56.00 %
102	Haiti	55.99 %
103	Romania	55.51 %
104	Australia	55.21 %
105	Netherlands	55.09 %
106	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	54.87 %
107	Hungary	54.79 %
108	Bermuda	54.68 %
109	New Zealand	54.59 %
110	Bosnia and Herzegovina	54.48 %
111	Gibraltar	54.47 %
112	United States	54.45 %
113	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	54.34 %
114	Jordan	54.30 %
115	Paraguay	54.14 %
116	American Samoa	53.97 %
117	Honduras	53.94 %
118	Liechtenstein	53.82 %
119	Norway	53.78 %
120	Switzerland	53.77 %
121	Poland	53.73 %
122	Nepal	53.69 %
123	Canada	53.64 %
124	Lithuania	53.54 %
125	Lao People's Democratic Republic	53.53 %
126	North Macedonia	53.49 %
127	Austria	53.46 %
128	San Marino	53.06 %
129	Bangladesh	52.64 %
130	Dominican Republic	52.57 %
131	Russian Federation	52.57 %
132	Ireland	52.55 %
133	Uruguay	52.30 %
134	Slovakia	52.20 %
135	Nicaragua	52.19 %
136	Panama	52.09 %
137	Sri Lanka	51.82 %
138	Spain	51.67 %
139	Djibouti	51.56 %
140	Argentina	51.56 %
141	Belarus	51.43 %
142	Syrian Arab Republic	51.30 %
143	Aruba	51.29 %
144	Barbados	51.04 %
145	Morocco	50.99 %
146	Albania	50.97 %
147	Fiji	50.56 %
148	Tunisia	50.53 %
149	Suriname	50.46 %
150	Iceland	50.17 %
151	Philippines	50.06 %
152	Malta	49.80 %
153	Peru	49.70 %
154	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	49.66 %
155	Hong Kong	49.64 %
156	El Salvador	49.15 %
157	Armenia	49.12 %
158	Ukraine	48.92 %
159	Ecuador	48.81 %
160	Mexico	48.72 %
161	New Caledonia	48.66 %
162	South Africa	48.31 %
163	Libya	48.00 %
164	Cabo Verde	47.94 %
165	Viet Nam	47.65 %
166	Indonesia	46.81 %
167	Cuba	46.76 %
168	India	46.56 %
169	Northern Mariana Islands	46.53 %
170	Türkiye	46.48 %
171	Curaçao	46.43 %
172	Grenada	46.37 %
173	Greenland	46.22 %
174	Myanmar	46.21 %
175	Belize	46.20 %
176	Korea, Democratic People's Republic of	45.66 %
177	Luxembourg	45.46 %
178	Chile	45.14 %
179	Costa Rica	44.98 %
180	Dominica	44.57 %
181	Brazil	44.33 %
182	Cyprus	44.28 %
183	Iran, Islamic Republic of	44.26 %
184	China	44.24 %
185	French Polynesia	43.73 %
186	Azerbaijan	43.61 %
187	Trinidad and Tobago	43.14 %
188	Thailand	43.09 %
189	Colombia	42.96 %
190	Korea, Republic of	42.53 %
191	Bahamas	42.22 %
192	Palau	42.01 %
193	Antigua and Barbuda	42.01 %
194	Malaysia	41.89 %
195	Saint Kitts and Nevis	41.67 %
196	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	41.00 %
197	Seychelles	39.84 %
198	Mauritius	39.54 %
199	Macao	39.23 %
200	Andorra	38.56 %
201	Brunei Darussalam	38.30 %
202	Bhutan	37.75 %
203	Oman	37.66 %
204	Turks and Caicos Islands	37.60 %
205	Saint Lucia	37.28 %
206	Jamaica	36.82 %
207	Saudi Arabia	36.55 %
208	Singapore	33.94 %
209	Cayman Islands	33.66 %
210	Maldives	31.98 %
211	Virgin Islands, British	31.78 %
212	Bahrain	29.15 %
213	Kuwait	27.10 %
214	United Arab Emirates	21.77 %
215	Qatar	20.12 %

About This Indicator

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.

Source: World Bank Development Indicators

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