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Afghanistan - Dependency Ratio 1997

Name: Afghanistan Dependency Ratio 1997
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

106.41 +1.19 from 1996 Global rank: 211th

Afghanistan's dependency ratio was 106.41 in 1997, increased +1.19 from 105.22 in 1996. This was the 211th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1997▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 1997
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	United Arab Emirates	33.91	-4.4%
2nd	Singapore	34.04	-2.2%
3rd	Cayman Islands	34.31	-1.0%
4th	Andorra	36.51	0.9%
5th	Qatar	36.53	-2.0%
6th	Korea	39.30	-1.5%
7th	Northern Mariana Islands	39.87	-8.4%
8th	Hong Kong SAR, China	40.23	-0.6%
9th	Liechtenstein	40.82	-0.5%
10th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	40.85	0.2%
11th	San Marino	42.99	0.5%
12th	Slovenia	43.40	-0.8%
13th	Bermuda	43.52	0.1%
14th	Japan	44.57	1.4%
15th	British Virgin Islands	44.93	-1.0%
16th	Thailand	45.28	-1.2%
17th	Czechia	45.35	-1.4%
18th	Aruba	45.36	-2.8%
19th	Cuba	45.37	0.4%
20th	Spain	45.76	-0.5%
21st	Channel Islands	46.04	0.3%
22nd	Germany	46.47	0.2%
23rd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	46.55	0.3%
24th	Italy	46.55	1.0%
25th	Macao SAR, China	46.56	-1.0%
26th	Netherlands	46.90	0.5%
27th	Palau	47.21	-4.1%
28th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	47.28	-3.9%
29th	Croatia	47.30	1.0%
30th	Hungary	47.30	-0.6%
31st	Serbia	47.33	0.9%
32nd	Turks and Caicos Islands	47.40	-0.9%
33rd	Canada	47.57	-0.4%
34th	Romania	47.58	-0.4%
35th	Greenland	47.62	0.3%
36th	Mauritius	48.11	-1.9%
37th	Russian Federation	48.19	-1.5%
38th	Portugal	48.25	-0.3%
39th	Switzerland	48.36	0.4%
40th	Slovak Republic	48.42	-2.1%
41st	European Union	48.47	-0.2%
42nd	Bulgaria	48.49	-0.8%
43rd	Greece	48.62	-0.3%
44th	Malta	48.66	-1.3%
45th	China	48.68	-2.0%
46th	Luxembourg	48.81	0.9%
47th	Denmark	48.95	0.6%
48th	Austria	49.05	-0.3%
49th	Poland	49.75	-1.8%
50th	Ukraine	49.92	-1.4%
51st	Australia	49.93	-0.2%
52nd	Finland	49.98	0.0%
53rd	Montenegro	50.02	-0.5%
54th	Bahrain	50.30	-2.2%
55th	St. Martin (French part)	50.68	-0.7%
56th	Cyprus	50.72	-1.8%
57th	Kuwait	50.73	-2.9%
58th	Trinidad and Tobago	50.78	-3.9%
59th	Barbados	50.85	-0.7%
60th	Belarus	51.05	-1.3%
61st	North Macedonia	51.11	-0.7%
62nd	United States	51.29	-0.7%
63rd	Latvia	51.47	-0.9%
64th	Estonia	51.69	-0.5%
65th	Gibraltar	51.81	0.4%
66th	Belgium	51.82	0.6%
67th	Lithuania	51.92	0.2%
68th	Sri Lanka	52.17	-2.0%
69th	Ireland	52.31	-2.6%
70th	Bahamas, The	52.71	0.3%
71st	New Zealand	52.75	-0.1%
72nd	France	53.08	0.1%
73rd	Virgin Islands (US)	53.46	0.2%
74th	Brunei Darussalam	53.51	-2.3%
75th	New Caledonia	54.13	-0.5%
76th	Guam	54.59	0.3%
77th	United Kingdom	54.61	-0.4%
78th	Iceland	54.73	-0.7%
79th	Norway	54.88	0.0%
80th	Puerto Rico (US)	54.91	-0.5%
81st	Moldova	55.27	-1.6%
82nd	Georgia	55.30	-0.4%
83rd	Curaçao	55.33	0.4%
84th	Chile	55.37	-0.5%
85th	Isle of Man	55.41	-1.1%
86th	Monaco	55.54	0.5%
87th	Antigua and Barbuda	56.64	-1.3%
88th	Sweden	56.69	-0.4%
89th	Kazakhstan	56.96	-1.9%
90th	Brazil	57.44	-2.1%
91st	Seychelles	57.89	-1.6%
92nd	Indonesia	58.53	-1.6%
93rd	Uruguay	59.50	0.4%
94th	Türkiye	59.56	-2.1%
95th	Faroe Islands	59.79	-0.2%
96th	Albania	59.89	-0.4%
97th	Kosovo	60.16	-2.2%
98th	Libya	60.21	-3.8%
99th	Tunisia	60.61	-2.6%
100th	French Polynesia	60.97	-1.9%
101st	Azerbaijan	61.16	-1.6%
102nd	Colombia	61.24	-1.4%
103rd	Myanmar	61.81	-1.7%
104th	Panama	61.87	-1.3%
105th	Costa Rica	61.91	-2.0%
106th	Argentina	62.03	-0.6%
107th	Lebanon	62.49	-1.9%
108th	Israel	63.42	-1.1%
109th	St. Kitts and Nevis	63.50	-2.9%
110th	Suriname	63.91	-2.1%
111th	Malaysia	63.97	-0.9%
112th	Armenia	64.11	-0.7%
113th	Fiji	64.54	-2.0%
114th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	64.55	-2.2%
115th	Morocco	66.05	-2.0%
116th	Viet Nam	67.27	-3.1%
117th	Mexico	67.41	-1.3%
118th	Guyana	67.54	0.1%
119th	Peru	67.57	-1.7%
120th	Dominican Republic	68.36	-1.2%
121st	Dominica	68.79	-1.2%
122nd	Ecuador	69.07	-0.9%
123rd	India	69.34	-1.2%
124th	Jamaica	69.39	-1.7%
125th	St. Lucia	69.62	-2.5%
126th	Oman	69.97	-2.2%
127th	Mongolia	70.10	-2.6%
128th	Algeria	70.31	-3.3%
129th	Grenada	71.01	0.7%
130th	South Africa	71.62	-0.6%
131st	Saudi Arabia	73.16	-2.2%
132nd	Nauru	73.43	-2.4%
133rd	American Samoa	73.44	0.0%
134th	Bangladesh	73.55	-2.5%
135th	El Salvador	73.70	-1.5%
136th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	73.71	-1.7%
137th	Tuvalu	74.04	0.3%
138th	Kyrgyz Republic	74.13	-2.2%
139th	Jordan	74.99	0.1%
140th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	75.38	-5.9%
141st	Papua New Guinea	75.52	-0.7%
142nd	Uzbekistan	75.83	-1.2%
143rd	Philippines	76.75	-1.1%
144th	Turkmenistan	77.27	-2.1%
145th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	77.73	-0.5%
146th	Botswana	78.24	-3.1%
147th	Bhutan	78.84	-1.7%
148th	Samoa	79.76	0.8%
149th	Paraguay	79.78	-1.5%
150th	Kiribati	80.12	-0.6%
151st	Tonga	80.43	-1.0%
152nd	Djibouti	80.59	-2.8%
153rd	Haiti	81.15	-0.8%
154th	Namibia	82.06	-0.6%
155th	Nepal	82.26	-0.1%
156th	Timor-Leste	82.60	0.0%
157th	Micronesia, Federated States of	82.81	-2.6%
158th	Belize	82.82	-2.2%
159th	Nicaragua	83.72	-2.3%
160th	Lesotho	83.76	-1.5%
161st	Togo	86.27	-1.2%
162nd	Liberia	86.47	-0.5%
163rd	Ghana	86.85	-1.2%
164th	Congo, Republic of	86.92	0.2%
165th	Syrian Arab Republic	87.19	-1.6%
166th	Equatorial Guinea	87.22	0.0%
167th	Eritrea	87.89	3.6%
168th	Gabon	88.35	-1.4%
169th	Marshall Islands	88.92	-4.1%
170th	Solomon Islands	89.05	-1.0%
171st	Honduras	89.18	-1.3%
172nd	Nigeria	89.23	-0.7%
173rd	Lao PDR	89.24	-0.4%
174th	Sierra Leone	89.43	0.2%
175th	Iraq	89.83	-0.8%
176th	Maldives	89.89	-3.4%
177th	Vanuatu	89.95	-1.8%
178th	Zimbabwe	90.53	-3.8%
179th	Pakistan	90.77	-0.8%
180th	Mozambique	90.88	-0.3%
181st	Tanzania	91.08	0.5%
182nd	Mauritania	91.50	0.4%
183rd	Senegal	91.59	-0.9%
184th	Cambodia	92.28	-2.9%
185th	Tajikistan	92.30	-1.7%
186th	Central African Republic	92.89	-0.2%
187th	Madagascar	92.94	0.1%
188th	Guatemala	93.04	-0.6%
189th	Guinea	93.21	1.2%
190th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	93.50	2.9%
191st	Angola	93.78	0.1%
192nd	Cabo Verde	94.05	-1.8%
193rd	South Sudan	94.11	0.3%
194th	Eswatini	94.35	-2.9%
195th	São Tomé and Principe	94.44	-1.3%
196th	Côte d'Ivoire	94.97	-0.8%
197th	Cameroon	95.68	-1.0%
198th	Niger	96.21	0.5%
199th	Guinea-Bissau	96.34	-1.1%
200th	Benin	96.64	-0.4%
201st	Sudan	96.66	-0.3%
202nd	Malawi	97.21	-0.3%
203rd	Kenya	97.33	-1.2%
204th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	98.72	0.4%
205th	Gambia, The	100.56	0.1%
206th	Burkina Faso	101.02	-0.5%
207th	Mali	101.45	-0.5%
208th	West Bank and Gaza	102.11	-0.8%
209th	Zambia	103.15	-0.3%
210th	Chad	105.03	1.3%
211th	Afghanistan	106.41	1.1%
212th	Comoros	108.79	-0.1%
213th	Rwanda	109.72	-3.7%
214th	Burundi	110.14	1.2%
215th	Uganda	110.44	0.9%
216th	Yemen, Republic of	112.97	-1.4%

FAQ

What was Afghanistan's dependency ratio in 1997?▾

Afghanistan's dependency ratio in 1997 was 106.41. This ranked 211th globally.

How did Afghanistan's dependency ratio change in 1997?▾

Afghanistan's dependency ratio increased by 1.1% in 1997 compared to 1996.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 1997?▾

Yemen, Republic of had the highest dependency ratio in 1997 at 112.97.

What is the dependency ratio of Afghanistan in 1997?▾

The dependency ratio of Afghanistan in 1997 was 106.41. This ranked 211th globally.

How does 1997 compare to 1996 for Afghanistan's dependency ratio?▾

Afghanistan's dependency ratio went from 105.22 in 1996 to 106.41 in 1997, a 1.1% increase.

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