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Costa Rica - Dependency Ratio 2016

Name: Costa Rica Dependency Ratio 2016
Creator: World Bank
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

45.34 −0.20 from 2015 Global rank: 45th

Costa Rica's dependency ratio was 45.34 in 2016, decreased +0.20 from 45.54 in 2015. This was the 45th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2016▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 2016
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Qatar	17.36	-1.7%
2nd	United Arab Emirates	22.39	-0.3%
3rd	Singapore	28.15	1.7%
4th	Macao SAR, China	28.73	3.8%
5th	Bahrain	29.24	-2.6%
6th	Cayman Islands	31.28	0.0%
7th	Kuwait	32.01	0.2%
8th	Oman	32.77	-0.8%
9th	British Virgin Islands	35.63	0.1%
10th	Korea	36.46	0.0%
11th	Maldives	36.57	-2.2%
12th	Turks and Caicos Islands	36.73	-1.1%
13th	Saudi Arabia	37.23	-0.8%
14th	Hong Kong SAR, China	37.91	2.9%
15th	Brunei Darussalam	38.01	-1.0%
16th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	38.07	1.3%
17th	Mauritius	38.46	0.2%
18th	Trinidad and Tobago	38.77	1.6%
19th	Palau	38.85	0.6%
20th	St. Kitts and Nevis	38.99	-1.0%
21st	Andorra	39.10	-0.7%
22nd	Seychelles	39.40	-0.8%
23rd	St. Lucia	39.73	-2.1%
24th	Thailand	39.89	0.4%
25th	Cyprus	40.20	1.0%
26th	China	40.44	2.1%
27th	Greenland	40.60	0.2%
28th	Antigua and Barbuda	41.02	-0.9%
29th	Jamaica	41.54	-2.2%
30th	Azerbaijan	42.27	2.3%
31st	Northern Mariana Islands	42.54	0.4%
32nd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	42.89	2.0%
33rd	Slovak Republic	43.00	2.8%
34th	Brazil	43.44	-0.4%
35th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	44.01	-0.9%
36th	Luxembourg	44.08	-0.8%
37th	Viet Nam	44.39	1.4%
38th	Ukraine	44.49	2.7%
39th	Cuba	44.85	0.3%
40th	Belarus	44.94	2.5%
41st	Moldova	44.96	5.2%
42nd	Poland	45.03	2.7%
43rd	Russian Federation	45.09	3.3%
44th	Aruba	45.16	2.1%
45th	Costa Rica	45.34	-0.4%
46th	Chile	45.36	0.1%
47th	French Polynesia	45.51	-0.9%
48th	Bahamas, The	45.54	-0.9%
49th	Colombia	45.57	-1.4%
50th	Türkiye	45.59	-0.8%
51st	Dominica	45.60	0.0%
52nd	Malaysia	45.73	-0.7%
53rd	Armenia	45.91	2.0%
54th	Albania	46.04	0.0%
55th	North Macedonia	46.39	1.1%
56th	Bermuda	46.43	1.4%
57th	Liechtenstein	46.44	1.7%
58th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	46.82	1.7%
59th	Myanmar	47.04	-0.6%
60th	Tunisia	47.11	1.6%
61st	Barbados	47.30	0.0%
62nd	Bhutan	47.55	-1.6%
63rd	Grenada	47.65	-0.7%
64th	Canada	48.39	1.7%
65th	Malta	48.83	1.2%
66th	Curaçao	48.95	0.8%
67th	Austria	48.96	0.5%
68th	New Caledonia	48.96	-0.6%
69th	Switzerland	49.06	0.8%
70th	Indonesia	49.08	-0.6%
71st	Hungary	49.14	1.8%
72nd	Channel Islands	49.30	1.1%
73rd	Kosovo	49.42	-1.8%
74th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	49.49	-0.5%
75th	Romania	49.89	1.9%
76th	Uzbekistan	50.06	1.5%
77th	Montenegro	50.10	1.6%
78th	San Marino	50.18	0.0%
79th	Slovenia	50.22	2.7%
80th	Turkmenistan	50.36	1.0%
81st	St. Martin (French part)	50.56	0.3%
82nd	United States	50.79	0.8%
83rd	Spain	50.80	0.7%
84th	Lebanon	50.87	5.2%
85th	Serbia	50.87	2.2%
86th	South Africa	51.06	0.5%
87th	Iceland	51.08	-0.3%
88th	Cabo Verde	51.10	-0.5%
89th	Sri Lanka	51.11	0.6%
90th	Morocco	51.14	-0.1%
91st	Lithuania	51.33	1.9%
92nd	India	51.58	-1.6%
93rd	Australia	51.60	1.1%
94th	Czechia	51.61	3.0%
95th	Mongolia	51.73	3.3%
96th	Georgia	51.75	2.4%
97th	Croatia	52.06	1.7%
98th	New Zealand	52.31	-0.4%
99th	Mexico	52.40	-1.1%
100th	Norway	52.42	0.6%
101st	Germany	52.58	0.9%
102nd	Netherlands	52.70	0.5%
103rd	Suriname	52.74	-1.2%
104th	Ireland	52.78	0.5%
105th	Bulgaria	52.91	2.2%
106th	Puerto Rico (US)	53.10	0.5%
107th	European Union	53.24	1.2%
108th	Dominican Republic	53.30	-0.7%
109th	Fiji	53.33	-0.3%
110th	Algeria	53.44	2.6%
111th	Guam	53.55	1.2%
112th	Panama	53.95	-0.3%
113th	Kazakhstan	54.03	2.9%
114th	Portugal	54.11	1.0%
115th	Latvia	54.28	2.4%
116th	Belize	54.40	-2.9%
117th	El Salvador	54.42	-2.0%
118th	Ecuador	54.63	-1.6%
119th	Estonia	54.65	1.9%
120th	Belgium	54.65	0.8%
121st	Libya	54.81	-0.4%
122nd	Peru	55.03	-0.9%
123rd	Paraguay	55.15	-0.7%
124th	Guyana	55.26	0.0%
125th	Bangladesh	55.37	-1.9%
126th	Gibraltar	55.44	0.8%
127th	Uruguay	55.47	-0.3%
128th	Denmark	55.56	0.4%
129th	Greece	55.85	1.2%
130th	Italy	55.92	0.6%
131st	United Kingdom	55.92	0.9%
132nd	Argentina	56.05	0.0%
133rd	Cambodia	57.63	0.3%
134th	Nicaragua	57.78	-1.1%
135th	Isle of Man	57.84	1.3%
136th	American Samoa	58.27	-0.7%
137th	Philippines	58.40	-1.9%
138th	Lao PDR	58.63	-1.7%
139th	Finland	58.66	1.8%
140th	Virgin Islands (US)	58.84	1.0%
141st	Kyrgyz Republic	59.06	1.6%
142nd	Tuvalu	59.18	-0.7%
143rd	Sweden	59.49	1.1%
144th	France	59.66	1.2%
145th	Djibouti	60.37	-2.2%
146th	Honduras	60.82	-2.2%
147th	Botswana	60.84	-0.4%
148th	Micronesia, Federated States of	60.87	-0.3%
149th	Jordan	60.96	-1.1%
150th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	60.97	-1.4%
151st	Faroe Islands	61.47	0.5%
152nd	Haiti	61.59	-1.3%
153rd	Nepal	61.62	-1.7%
154th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	62.34	0.6%
155th	Kiribati	63.29	-0.4%
156th	Papua New Guinea	63.40	-1.0%
157th	Tajikistan	64.63	0.0%
158th	Israel	65.33	1.1%
159th	Nauru	66.15	0.3%
160th	Marshall Islands	66.16	-1.8%
161st	Eswatini	66.25	-1.4%
162nd	Namibia	66.91	0.2%
163rd	Guatemala	66.96	-1.9%
164th	Japan	67.32	2.0%
165th	Lesotho	67.93	-0.3%
166th	Gabon	68.29	-0.1%
167th	Equatorial Guinea	71.25	0.1%
168th	Ghana	71.73	-0.8%
169th	Vanuatu	73.91	1.0%
170th	Pakistan	73.91	-0.3%
171st	Tonga	74.03	-0.8%
172nd	Samoa	75.39	0.2%
173rd	West Bank and Gaza	75.92	-0.7%
174th	Iraq	75.94	-1.0%
175th	Solomon Islands	76.21	-0.9%
176th	Timor-Leste	78.05	-2.2%
177th	Rwanda	78.24	-0.9%
178th	Comoros	78.42	-0.5%
179th	Kenya	78.64	-1.7%
180th	Togo	79.33	-0.3%
181st	Yemen, Republic of	79.67	-0.8%
182nd	Madagascar	80.03	-1.2%
183rd	Syrian Arab Republic	80.12	-1.0%
184th	Sierra Leone	80.43	-1.6%
185th	Congo, Republic of	80.90	0.6%
186th	Guinea-Bissau	81.25	-0.9%
187th	Côte d'Ivoire	81.31	0.4%
188th	São Tomé and Principe	82.82	-0.8%
189th	Liberia	83.32	-0.5%
190th	Senegal	83.83	-1.1%
191st	Sudan	84.64	-1.6%
192nd	Cameroon	84.73	-0.6%
193rd	Gambia, The	85.00	-0.9%
194th	Eritrea	85.33	0.0%
195th	South Sudan	86.10	2.6%
196th	Benin	86.37	-0.4%
197th	Guinea	87.12	-1.0%
198th	Zambia	87.27	-1.3%
199th	Zimbabwe	88.33	-0.6%
200th	Nigeria	89.06	-0.7%
201st	Tanzania	89.30	-1.2%
202nd	Monaco	89.37	3.3%
203rd	Mauritania	91.19	-0.4%
204th	Burkina Faso	91.95	-0.7%
205th	Angola	92.19	0.0%
206th	Malawi	92.47	-1.8%
207th	Afghanistan	92.89	-1.8%
208th	Mozambique	93.61	-0.3%
209th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	96.20	-0.3%
210th	Uganda	97.95	-2.1%
211th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	99.88	-0.2%
212th	Burundi	99.94	2.9%
213th	Chad	102.28	-0.1%
214th	Mali	102.31	-0.2%
215th	Central African Republic	104.21	0.3%
216th	Niger	106.06	-0.7%

FAQ

What was Costa Rica's dependency ratio in 2016?▾

Costa Rica's dependency ratio in 2016 was 45.34. This ranked 45th globally.

How did Costa Rica's dependency ratio change in 2016?▾

Costa Rica's dependency ratio decreased by 0.4% in 2016 compared to 2015.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 2016?▾

Niger had the highest dependency ratio in 2016 at 106.06.

What is the dependency ratio of Costa Rica in 2016?▾

The dependency ratio of Costa Rica in 2016 was 45.34. This ranked 45th globally.

How does 2016 compare to 2015 for Costa Rica's dependency ratio?▾

Costa Rica's dependency ratio went from 45.54 in 2015 to 45.34 in 2016, a 0.4% decrease.

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