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Faroe Islands - Dependency Ratio 1978

Name: Faroe Islands Dependency Ratio 1978
Creator: World Bank
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

63.54 −0.81 from 1977 Global rank: 69th

Faroe Islands's dependency ratio was 63.54 in 1978, decreased +0.81 from 64.35 in 1977. This was the 69th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1978▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 1978
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	United Arab Emirates	39.56	-0.2%
2nd	Andorra	44.71	-2.3%
3rd	Serbia	45.75	-0.2%
4th	Russian Federation	46.19	-0.1%
5th	Bermuda	46.65	-3.0%
6th	Japan	47.92	0.8%
7th	Finland	48.17	-0.3%
8th	Croatia	48.59	0.3%
9th	Luxembourg	49.04	-1.0%
10th	Nauru	49.18	-2.1%
11th	Canada	49.27	-2.3%
12th	Liechtenstein	49.81	-2.0%
13th	Malta	49.85	-0.7%
14th	Singapore	49.87	-4.6%
15th	Ukraine	49.88	-0.1%
16th	Hong Kong SAR, China	50.10	-4.2%
17th	Latvia	50.36	-0.4%
18th	Qatar	50.51	-5.5%
19th	Bulgaria	50.67	0.2%
20th	San Marino	50.81	-2.0%
21st	Moldova	51.42	-0.5%
22nd	United States	51.50	-1.7%
23rd	Belarus	51.51	-1.3%
24th	Channel Islands	51.53	-0.8%
25th	Poland	51.58	0.8%
26th	Estonia	51.61	0.3%
27th	Switzerland	52.39	-1.2%
28th	Slovenia	52.41	0.2%
29th	Hungary	53.16	2.3%
30th	Netherlands	53.28	-2.0%
31st	Gibraltar	53.66	-0.3%
32nd	Georgia	53.78	-1.6%
33rd	Germany	54.29	-1.8%
34th	Lithuania	54.48	-1.5%
35th	Australia	54.55	-1.2%
36th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	54.56	-2.3%
37th	Belgium	54.61	-1.2%
38th	Greenland	55.08	-6.2%
39th	Denmark	55.86	-0.6%
40th	European Union	55.96	-0.4%
41st	Aruba	56.16	-3.0%
42nd	Sweden	56.56	0.1%
43rd	Greece	56.62	0.5%
44th	Italy	56.70	-0.6%
45th	North Macedonia	57.24	-1.1%
46th	Cyprus	57.32	-3.5%
47th	Slovak Republic	57.44	0.6%
48th	Montenegro	57.51	-1.5%
49th	United Kingdom	57.66	-1.3%
50th	Romania	57.87	2.3%
51st	Czechia	57.99	1.7%
52nd	Monaco	58.05	-0.8%
53rd	Armenia	58.25	-2.6%
54th	France	58.38	-0.7%
55th	Austria	58.47	-1.9%
56th	Cayman Islands	59.26	-4.3%
57th	Norway	59.43	-0.4%
58th	Uruguay	59.89	0.5%
59th	Spain	60.12	-0.4%
60th	Portugal	60.28	-0.5%
61st	Argentina	60.39	1.2%
62nd	New Zealand	60.47	-1.7%
63rd	Barbados	60.51	-3.3%
64th	Guam	60.59	-1.6%
65th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	60.66	-1.1%
66th	Iceland	61.32	-1.8%
67th	Kazakhstan	62.31	0.0%
68th	Curaçao	63.53	-3.6%
69th	Faroe Islands	63.54	-1.3%
70th	Chile	63.57	-1.7%
71st	Bahrain	64.08	-3.9%
72nd	Mauritius	64.16	-2.8%
73rd	Korea	64.71	-3.6%
74th	Trinidad and Tobago	65.68	-2.8%
75th	Tuvalu	65.76	-6.0%
76th	British Virgin Islands	67.66	-0.6%
77th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	67.79	-3.1%
78th	Timor-Leste	68.12	-2.3%
79th	Azerbaijan	68.43	-5.8%
80th	Isle of Man	68.54	-0.8%
81st	Puerto Rico (US)	68.65	-1.2%
82nd	Bahamas, The	69.51	-2.7%
83rd	Cuba	70.00	-3.2%
84th	Sri Lanka	70.07	-0.9%
85th	Antigua and Barbuda	70.25	-3.6%
86th	Israel	70.61	1.1%
87th	Ireland	70.82	-0.6%
88th	Virgin Islands (US)	72.31	-1.6%
89th	Brunei Darussalam	72.68	-2.3%
90th	Kuwait	72.71	-3.6%
91st	Costa Rica	73.41	-2.4%
92nd	Albania	73.94	-2.4%
93rd	Brazil	74.11	-1.5%
94th	China	74.66	-4.6%
95th	Macao SAR, China	75.82	-17.5%
96th	Fiji	75.88	-2.0%
97th	New Caledonia	76.60	-1.0%
98th	Malaysia	76.63	-2.0%
99th	Kyrgyz Republic	77.12	-1.3%
100th	Thailand	77.16	-2.9%
101st	Myanmar	77.61	-0.7%
102nd	India	78.71	-0.6%
103rd	Nepal	79.39	0.3%
104th	Kosovo	79.72	-2.1%
105th	Lebanon	79.84	-1.8%
106th	French Polynesia	80.36	-1.7%
107th	Northern Mariana Islands	80.78	-2.8%
108th	Indonesia	81.13	-1.0%
109th	Colombia	81.24	-2.3%
110th	American Samoa	81.35	-2.8%
111th	St. Martin (French part)	81.78	-4.0%
112th	Bhutan	82.06	0.5%
113th	Türkiye	82.18	-1.5%
114th	Seychelles	82.19	-3.4%
115th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	82.21	0.1%
116th	South Africa	82.61	-0.8%
117th	Haiti	82.65	0.3%
118th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	82.80	-0.1%
119th	Lesotho	83.05	0.8%
120th	Panama	83.66	-1.8%
121st	Papua New Guinea	83.99	-1.4%
122nd	Gabon	84.27	1.2%
123rd	Sierra Leone	84.69	0.5%
124th	Viet Nam	84.78	-1.3%
125th	Kiribati	84.88	-2.3%
126th	Equatorial Guinea	85.01	0.7%
127th	Guinea	85.42	1.1%
128th	Uzbekistan	85.80	-2.7%
129th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	85.86	-0.1%
130th	Grenada	86.31	-1.7%
131st	Turkmenistan	86.46	-1.8%
132nd	Palau	87.12	-2.5%
133rd	Paraguay	87.28	-1.6%
134th	Saudi Arabia	87.35	-0.9%
135th	Tunisia	87.36	-1.4%
136th	Ecuador	87.45	-1.0%
137th	Liberia	87.72	0.4%
138th	Mali	87.76	1.4%
139th	Central African Republic	87.94	-0.2%
140th	Eritrea	88.08	0.3%
141st	Lao PDR	88.22	1.3%
142nd	Suriname	88.43	-3.1%
143rd	Gambia, The	88.44	1.7%
144th	Cambodia	88.63	-1.4%
145th	Pakistan	88.74	-0.2%
146th	St. Kitts and Nevis	89.05	-1.6%
147th	Dominican Republic	89.29	-1.9%
148th	Guyana	89.32	-1.8%
149th	Tajikistan	89.48	-1.0%
150th	Peru	89.76	-0.9%
151st	Nigeria	89.89	1.0%
152nd	Congo, Democratic Republic of	90.03	-0.4%
153rd	Angola	90.33	-1.0%
154th	Vanuatu	90.96	-0.8%
155th	El Salvador	90.99	-1.6%
156th	Mozambique	91.00	1.0%
157th	Burkina Faso	91.32	1.0%
158th	Morocco	91.40	-1.6%
159th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	91.40	0.3%
160th	Philippines	91.54	-2.0%
161st	South Sudan	91.95	0.6%
162nd	Turks and Caicos Islands	92.11	-1.9%
163rd	Cameroon	92.69	1.1%
164th	Bangladesh	92.72	0.1%
165th	Malawi	92.78	0.4%
166th	Guatemala	92.96	0.0%
167th	Afghanistan	93.07	0.7%
168th	Djibouti	93.31	0.1%
169th	Jamaica	93.38	-1.9%
170th	Senegal	93.50	1.7%
171st	Maldives	93.68	0.2%
172nd	Tonga	94.43	-1.7%
173rd	Mauritania	95.44	0.4%
174th	Niger	95.63	-0.3%
175th	Burundi	95.74	-0.4%
176th	Côte d'Ivoire	96.00	1.5%
177th	Rwanda	96.05	0.0%
178th	Togo	96.16	0.3%
179th	Dominica	96.62	-2.5%
180th	Chad	96.86	1.6%
181st	Congo, Republic of	96.99	0.1%
182nd	Mongolia	97.68	-1.9%
183rd	Benin	97.81	0.1%
184th	Mexico	98.18	-1.2%
185th	Tanzania	98.22	0.7%
186th	Botswana	98.33	-2.5%
187th	Guinea-Bissau	98.34	4.3%
188th	Ghana	98.37	-1.7%
189th	São Tomé and Principe	98.79	-0.6%
190th	Belize	98.94	-1.8%
191st	Nicaragua	99.26	0.1%
192nd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	99.59	-0.7%
193rd	Sudan	99.65	-1.1%
194th	Namibia	99.78	2.3%
195th	Oman	101.15	-0.7%
196th	Madagascar	101.23	0.2%
197th	Algeria	101.42	-1.1%
198th	Samoa	101.50	-2.2%
199th	Uganda	102.00	0.3%
200th	Micronesia, Federated States of	102.05	-0.2%
201st	Honduras	102.07	0.0%
202nd	Libya	102.31	-1.2%
203rd	Yemen, Republic of	102.31	1.6%
204th	St. Lucia	104.97	-5.0%
205th	Eswatini	105.20	0.8%
206th	Comoros	105.24	0.4%
207th	Solomon Islands	106.39	0.0%
208th	Iraq	106.57	-0.6%
209th	Syrian Arab Republic	107.05	-0.1%
210th	Zimbabwe	107.83	1.4%
211th	Zambia	110.58	0.6%
212th	Cabo Verde	110.58	1.5%
213th	Marshall Islands	111.78	1.3%
214th	Jordan	111.81	-1.0%
215th	Kenya	117.14	-0.5%

FAQ

What was Faroe Islands's dependency ratio in 1978?▾

Faroe Islands's dependency ratio in 1978 was 63.54. This ranked 69th globally.

How did Faroe Islands's dependency ratio change in 1978?▾

Faroe Islands's dependency ratio decreased by 1.3% in 1978 compared to 1977.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 1978?▾

Kenya had the highest dependency ratio in 1978 at 117.14.

What is the dependency ratio of Faroe Islands in 1978?▾

The dependency ratio of Faroe Islands in 1978 was 63.54. This ranked 69th globally.

How does 1978 compare to 1977 for Faroe Islands's dependency ratio?▾

Faroe Islands's dependency ratio went from 64.35 in 1977 to 63.54 in 1978, a 1.3% decrease.

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