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Ghana - Dependency Ratio 2017

Name: Ghana Dependency Ratio 2017
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

71.00 −0.73 from 2016 Global rank: 167th

Ghana's dependency ratio was 71.00 in 2017, decreased +0.73 from 71.73 in 2016. This was the 167th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2017▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 2017
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Qatar	17.45	0.6%
2nd	United Arab Emirates	22.31	-0.4%
3rd	Singapore	28.85	2.5%
4th	Bahrain	28.85	-1.3%
5th	Macao SAR, China	29.84	3.8%
6th	Cayman Islands	31.32	0.1%
7th	Kuwait	32.10	0.3%
8th	Oman	33.03	0.8%
9th	British Virgin Islands	35.68	0.1%
10th	Maldives	35.74	-2.3%
11th	Turks and Caicos Islands	36.53	-0.5%
12th	Korea	36.78	0.9%
13th	Brunei Darussalam	37.74	-0.7%
14th	Saudi Arabia	37.83	1.6%
15th	Mauritius	38.51	0.1%
16th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	38.67	1.6%
17th	Andorra	38.80	-0.8%
18th	St. Kitts and Nevis	38.92	-0.2%
19th	St. Lucia	39.05	-1.7%
20th	Hong Kong SAR, China	39.13	3.2%
21st	Palau	39.17	0.8%
22nd	Seychelles	39.19	-0.5%
23rd	Trinidad and Tobago	39.40	1.6%
24th	Thailand	40.06	0.4%
25th	Cyprus	40.61	1.0%
26th	Jamaica	40.66	-2.1%
27th	Greenland	40.80	0.5%
28th	Antigua and Barbuda	40.85	-0.4%
29th	China	41.51	2.6%
30th	Northern Mariana Islands	42.58	0.1%
31st	Azerbaijan	42.97	1.7%
32nd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	43.37	-1.5%
33rd	Brazil	43.37	-0.2%
34th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	43.67	1.8%
35th	Luxembourg	43.86	-0.5%
36th	Slovak Republic	44.39	3.2%
37th	Colombia	44.84	-1.6%
38th	Cuba	44.99	0.3%
39th	Bahamas, The	45.11	-1.0%
40th	French Polynesia	45.19	-0.7%
41st	Chile	45.24	-0.3%
42nd	Costa Rica	45.26	-0.2%
43rd	Viet Nam	45.32	2.1%
44th	Türkiye	45.49	-0.2%
45th	Malaysia	45.50	-0.5%
46th	Ukraine	45.66	2.6%
47th	Belarus	46.01	2.4%
48th	Dominica	46.02	0.9%
49th	Aruba	46.13	2.1%
50th	Albania	46.17	0.3%
51st	Bhutan	46.32	-2.6%
52nd	Poland	46.36	2.9%
53rd	Russian Federation	46.41	2.9%
54th	Myanmar	46.76	-0.6%
55th	Armenia	46.82	2.0%
56th	Moldova	47.01	4.6%
57th	North Macedonia	47.07	1.5%
58th	Bermuda	47.25	1.8%
59th	Liechtenstein	47.31	1.9%
60th	Grenada	47.41	-0.5%
61st	Barbados	47.44	0.3%
62nd	Bosnia and Herzegovina	47.71	1.9%
63rd	Tunisia	47.86	1.6%
64th	Kosovo	47.92	-3.1%
65th	New Caledonia	48.69	-0.6%
66th	Indonesia	48.81	-0.5%
67th	Malta	48.90	0.1%
68th	Canada	49.10	1.5%
69th	Curaçao	49.22	0.6%
70th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	49.27	-0.4%
71st	Austria	49.31	0.7%
72nd	Switzerland	49.54	1.0%
73rd	Channel Islands	49.92	1.3%
74th	Hungary	49.96	1.7%
75th	San Marino	50.03	-0.3%
76th	St. Martin (French part)	50.34	-0.4%
77th	Iceland	50.55	-1.0%
78th	India	50.77	-1.6%
79th	Uzbekistan	50.82	1.5%
80th	Montenegro	50.90	1.6%
81st	Romania	50.91	2.0%
82nd	Turkmenistan	51.05	1.4%
83rd	Spain	51.09	0.6%
84th	Morocco	51.16	0.0%
85th	Cabo Verde	51.23	0.2%
86th	United States	51.24	0.9%
87th	South Africa	51.27	0.4%
88th	Sri Lanka	51.34	0.4%
89th	Slovenia	51.55	2.7%
90th	Mexico	51.82	-1.1%
91st	Serbia	51.98	2.2%
92nd	Australia	52.04	0.9%
93rd	Suriname	52.19	-1.1%
94th	New Zealand	52.26	-0.1%
95th	Lithuania	52.47	2.2%
96th	Norway	52.82	0.8%
97th	Georgia	52.91	2.2%
98th	Belize	52.94	-2.7%
99th	Ireland	52.94	0.3%
100th	Netherlands	52.98	0.5%
101st	Dominican Republic	53.00	-0.6%
102nd	Czechia	53.14	3.0%
103rd	Fiji	53.14	-0.4%
104th	Croatia	53.15	2.1%
105th	Germany	53.26	1.3%
106th	Lebanon	53.36	4.9%
107th	El Salvador	53.49	-1.7%
108th	Mongolia	53.51	3.5%
109th	Ecuador	53.74	-1.6%
110th	Panama	53.79	-0.3%
111th	European Union	53.89	1.2%
112th	Bulgaria	53.94	2.0%
113th	Libya	54.32	-0.9%
114th	Puerto Rico (US)	54.36	2.4%
115th	Guam	54.36	1.5%
116th	Peru	54.43	-1.1%
117th	Bangladesh	54.64	-1.3%
118th	Portugal	54.78	1.2%
119th	Algeria	54.83	2.6%
120th	Paraguay	54.89	-0.5%
121st	Belgium	55.18	1.0%
122nd	Uruguay	55.22	-0.4%
123rd	Kazakhstan	55.41	2.6%
124th	Guyana	55.44	0.3%
125th	Latvia	55.48	2.2%
126th	Gibraltar	55.56	0.2%
127th	Estonia	55.62	1.8%
128th	Denmark	55.89	0.6%
129th	Argentina	55.97	-0.1%
130th	Italy	56.13	0.4%
131st	Greece	56.44	1.0%
132nd	United Kingdom	56.48	1.0%
133rd	Nicaragua	57.19	-1.0%
134th	Philippines	57.37	-1.8%
135th	Cambodia	57.76	0.2%
136th	Lao PDR	57.80	-1.4%
137th	American Samoa	57.85	-0.7%
138th	Isle of Man	58.27	0.7%
139th	Tuvalu	58.81	-0.6%
140th	Djibouti	58.96	-2.3%
141st	Virgin Islands (US)	59.26	0.7%
142nd	Kyrgyz Republic	59.49	0.7%
143rd	Honduras	59.59	-2.0%
144th	Finland	59.60	1.6%
145th	Sweden	59.94	0.8%
146th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	60.19	-1.3%
147th	France	60.26	1.0%
148th	Jordan	60.34	-1.0%
149th	Botswana	60.39	-0.7%
150th	Micronesia, Federated States of	60.85	0.0%
151st	Haiti	60.86	-1.2%
152nd	Nepal	60.89	-1.2%
153rd	Faroe Islands	61.97	0.8%
154th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	62.53	0.3%
155th	Papua New Guinea	62.75	-1.0%
156th	Kiribati	63.38	0.1%
157th	Tajikistan	64.65	0.0%
158th	Marshall Islands	65.11	-1.6%
159th	Eswatini	65.44	-1.2%
160th	Guatemala	65.72	-1.8%
161st	Israel	65.95	1.0%
162nd	Nauru	65.97	-0.3%
163rd	Namibia	67.28	0.5%
164th	Lesotho	67.49	-0.7%
165th	Japan	68.31	1.5%
166th	Gabon	68.42	0.2%
167th	Ghana	71.00	-1.0%
168th	Equatorial Guinea	71.24	0.0%
169th	Pakistan	73.58	-0.5%
170th	Tonga	73.75	-0.4%
171st	Vanuatu	74.55	0.9%
172nd	Iraq	75.06	-1.2%
173rd	Solomon Islands	75.46	-1.0%
174th	West Bank and Gaza	75.69	-0.3%
175th	Samoa	75.94	0.7%
176th	Timor-Leste	76.30	-2.2%
177th	Kenya	77.16	-1.9%
178th	Rwanda	77.48	-1.0%
179th	Comoros	77.59	-1.1%
180th	Syrian Arab Republic	77.64	-3.1%
181st	Togo	79.05	-0.3%
182nd	Sierra Leone	79.07	-1.7%
183rd	Madagascar	79.16	-1.1%
184th	Yemen, Republic of	79.16	-0.6%
185th	Guinea-Bissau	80.36	-1.1%
186th	Congo, Republic of	81.06	0.2%
187th	Côte d'Ivoire	81.46	0.2%
188th	São Tomé and Principe	81.91	-1.1%
189th	Senegal	82.66	-1.4%
190th	Liberia	82.89	-0.5%
191st	Sudan	82.91	-2.0%
192nd	Gambia, The	84.18	-1.0%
193rd	Cameroon	84.45	-0.3%
194th	Eritrea	84.89	-0.5%
195th	Benin	86.00	-0.4%
196th	Zambia	86.09	-1.4%
197th	Guinea	86.35	-0.9%
198th	Zimbabwe	87.51	-0.9%
199th	Nigeria	88.13	-1.1%
200th	Tanzania	88.42	-1.0%
201st	Malawi	90.62	-2.0%
202nd	South Sudan	90.73	5.4%
203rd	Mauritania	90.79	-0.4%
204th	Burkina Faso	91.14	-0.9%
205th	Afghanistan	91.29	-1.7%
206th	Monaco	91.70	2.6%
207th	Angola	92.07	-0.1%
208th	Mozambique	93.24	-0.4%
209th	Uganda	95.64	-2.4%
210th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	95.80	-0.4%
211th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	99.50	-0.4%
212th	Burundi	101.07	1.1%
213th	Chad	101.80	-0.5%
214th	Mali	101.88	-0.4%
215th	Central African Republic	104.59	0.4%
216th	Niger	105.29	-0.7%

FAQ

What was Ghana's dependency ratio in 2017?▾

Ghana's dependency ratio in 2017 was 71.00. This ranked 167th globally.

How did Ghana's dependency ratio change in 2017?▾

Ghana's dependency ratio decreased by 1.0% in 2017 compared to 2016.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 2017?▾

Niger had the highest dependency ratio in 2017 at 105.29.

What is the dependency ratio of Ghana in 2017?▾

The dependency ratio of Ghana in 2017 was 71.00. This ranked 167th globally.

How does 2017 compare to 2016 for Ghana's dependency ratio?▾

Ghana's dependency ratio went from 71.73 in 2016 to 71.00 in 2017, a 1.0% decrease.

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