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Greenland - Dependency Ratio 1988

Name: Greenland Dependency Ratio 1988
Creator: World Bank
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

40.19 +0.67 from 1987 Global rank: 5th

Greenland's dependency ratio was 40.19 in 1988, increased +0.67 from 39.52 in 1987. This was the 5th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1988▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 1988
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Northern Mariana Islands	36.13	-3.6%
2nd	Singapore	37.98	-1.6%
3rd	Andorra	38.23	-1.0%
4th	Qatar	39.40	0.3%
5th	Greenland	40.19	1.7%
6th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	40.20	-3.1%
7th	Bermuda	41.35	-2.2%
8th	Liechtenstein	41.53	-1.0%
9th	St. Martin (French part)	42.03	-0.3%
10th	Cayman Islands	42.11	-2.9%
11th	San Marino	43.10	-1.0%
12th	Hong Kong SAR, China	43.35	-1.0%
13th	Luxembourg	43.53	0.4%
14th	Serbia	43.55	0.7%
15th	Germany	44.05	0.5%
16th	Channel Islands	44.31	-0.4%
17th	Japan	44.62	-2.0%
18th	Netherlands	44.93	-0.3%
19th	Macao SAR, China	45.00	-3.5%
20th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	45.54	-0.5%
21st	Croatia	45.89	-0.1%
22nd	Switzerland	46.05	0.0%
23rd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	46.14	-2.9%
24th	Slovenia	46.35	-0.3%
25th	Canada	46.44	0.5%
26th	Italy	46.62	-0.9%
27th	Cuba	46.81	-2.8%
28th	United Arab Emirates	46.88	-1.7%
29th	Korea	46.98	-3.4%
30th	Aruba	47.74	-1.7%
31st	Finland	47.88	1.0%
32nd	Austria	47.89	0.3%
33rd	Russian Federation	48.25	0.7%
34th	Belgium	48.51	0.5%
35th	Denmark	49.09	-0.9%
36th	Latvia	49.40	0.5%
37th	European Union	49.48	-0.3%
38th	Australia	49.68	-0.7%
39th	Belarus	49.70	1.3%
40th	British Virgin Islands	49.96	-2.7%
41st	Ukraine	50.00	0.7%
42nd	Bulgaria	50.21	0.6%
43rd	Lithuania	50.27	1.5%
44th	United States	50.28	0.8%
45th	Montenegro	50.41	-0.3%
46th	Estonia	50.60	0.5%
47th	Greece	50.71	-1.7%
48th	Guam	51.21	-1.3%
49th	Malta	51.27	0.0%
50th	France	51.58	-0.2%
51st	Spain	51.69	-1.5%
52nd	North Macedonia	51.71	-0.2%
53rd	Romania	51.76	-0.1%
54th	Georgia	51.77	0.3%
55th	Gibraltar	51.99	-0.8%
56th	Hungary	52.02	0.1%
57th	New Zealand	52.08	-0.7%
58th	China	52.55	-1.8%
59th	Curaçao	52.84	-0.1%
60th	United Kingdom	52.88	1.0%
61st	Bahamas, The	53.00	-1.7%
62nd	Cyprus	53.03	-0.3%
63rd	Portugal	53.19	-1.4%
64th	Czechia	53.49	-1.0%
65th	Barbados	54.01	0.1%
66th	Monaco	54.26	-0.1%
67th	Poland	54.32	0.2%
68th	Norway	54.46	-0.6%
69th	Thailand	54.50	-3.3%
70th	Armenia	54.84	0.5%
71st	Bahrain	54.89	0.2%
72nd	Mauritius	55.07	-0.9%
73rd	Sweden	55.27	0.1%
74th	Iceland	55.49	-1.3%
75th	Moldova	55.81	1.0%
76th	Chile	55.97	-0.5%
77th	Virgin Islands (US)	56.03	-1.5%
78th	Slovak Republic	56.26	-0.2%
79th	Faroe Islands	56.61	-0.6%
80th	Turks and Caicos Islands	57.15	-3.2%
81st	Azerbaijan	58.47	0.3%
82nd	Puerto Rico (US)	58.86	-1.2%
83rd	Uruguay	59.60	0.0%
84th	Brunei Darussalam	59.64	-0.9%
85th	Isle of Man	59.71	-1.8%
86th	Palau	60.24	-4.0%
87th	Kazakhstan	60.83	-2.0%
88th	New Caledonia	61.23	-2.7%
89th	Kuwait	61.71	0.3%
90th	Antigua and Barbuda	61.81	1.1%
91st	Albania	62.35	-1.1%
92nd	Trinidad and Tobago	63.04	-0.7%
93rd	Tuvalu	63.09	3.2%
94th	Sri Lanka	63.60	-1.8%
95th	Argentina	64.24	0.0%
96th	Ireland	64.58	-1.0%
97th	French Polynesia	67.26	-0.9%
98th	Brazil	67.33	-1.1%
99th	Grenada	67.42	-1.5%
100th	Colombia	67.59	-1.2%
101st	Seychelles	67.67	-1.5%
102nd	Costa Rica	68.14	0.2%
103rd	Kosovo	68.66	1.1%
104th	Suriname	68.97	-0.8%
105th	Indonesia	69.01	-2.0%
106th	Israel	69.51	-0.6%
107th	Lebanon	69.56	-0.9%
108th	Panama	69.78	-1.7%
109th	Malaysia	70.24	-0.6%
110th	Türkiye	70.64	-1.7%
111th	Myanmar	70.65	-1.5%
112th	Guyana	70.73	-1.8%
113th	American Samoa	71.40	-0.6%
114th	Fiji	71.49	0.0%
115th	Dominica	71.78	-0.9%
116th	Kyrgyz Republic	72.71	0.7%
117th	South Africa	73.55	-1.1%
118th	Tunisia	74.50	-1.2%
119th	Nauru	75.12	1.9%
120th	India	75.23	-0.5%
121st	Ecuador	75.65	-1.6%
122nd	Kiribati	75.85	0.8%
123rd	Dominican Republic	76.02	-1.4%
124th	Uzbekistan	76.73	-0.2%
125th	Timor-Leste	77.44	2.2%
126th	St. Kitts and Nevis	77.62	-0.1%
127th	Peru	77.73	-1.5%
128th	Jamaica	77.85	-1.5%
129th	Morocco	79.02	-1.7%
130th	Mexico	79.14	-2.0%
131st	Papua New Guinea	79.72	-0.1%
132nd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	80.15	-1.5%
133rd	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	80.25	-0.3%
134th	El Salvador	80.59	-0.6%
135th	Turkmenistan	80.67	0.5%
136th	Viet Nam	80.70	-1.5%
137th	Philippines	81.22	-0.5%
138th	Equatorial Guinea	81.53	1.0%
139th	Nepal	81.97	0.6%
140th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	82.27	-0.1%
141st	Paraguay	82.45	0.2%
142nd	Saudi Arabia	82.62	-0.4%
143rd	Tonga	83.34	-0.9%
144th	Samoa	83.39	-0.6%
145th	Haiti	84.14	0.1%
146th	Bhutan	84.50	0.0%
147th	Cambodia	84.75	0.9%
148th	Mongolia	84.77	-0.9%
149th	Libya	85.36	-2.7%
150th	Algeria	86.40	-2.1%
151st	Tajikistan	87.53	0.4%
152nd	St. Lucia	87.64	-3.3%
153rd	Lesotho	87.85	1.0%
154th	Sierra Leone	87.86	0.3%
155th	Eritrea	88.02	0.8%
156th	Central African Republic	88.57	0.6%
157th	Bangladesh	88.86	-1.5%
158th	Angola	88.88	0.8%
159th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	89.10	0.3%
160th	Djibouti	89.13	-0.8%
161st	Iran, Islamic Republic of	89.28	0.9%
162nd	Liberia	89.29	-0.2%
163rd	Pakistan	89.52	0.5%
164th	Guinea	89.91	0.2%
165th	Lao PDR	90.10	-0.2%
166th	Oman	91.04	-3.2%
167th	Congo, Republic of	91.92	-0.5%
168th	Vanuatu	91.99	-0.6%
169th	Ghana	92.42	0.0%
170th	Gabon	92.44	0.4%
171st	Mauritania	93.74	-0.4%
172nd	Togo	94.14	-0.6%
173rd	South Sudan	94.31	-3.1%
174th	Namibia	94.41	-2.4%
175th	Nigeria	94.86	-0.2%
176th	Sudan	95.15	0.2%
177th	Guatemala	95.18	0.1%
178th	Belize	95.25	-0.5%
179th	Mozambique	95.78	-0.3%
180th	Botswana	95.91	-0.5%
181st	Niger	96.29	-0.1%
182nd	Malawi	96.72	-0.2%
183rd	Madagascar	96.96	-0.9%
184th	Maldives	96.99	1.4%
185th	Micronesia, Federated States of	97.05	-0.8%
186th	São Tomé and Principe	97.07	0.2%
187th	Nicaragua	97.78	-0.7%
188th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	97.86	1.0%
189th	Iraq	97.99	-1.1%
190th	Jordan	98.14	-1.4%
191st	Gambia, The	98.43	0.2%
192nd	Honduras	98.53	-0.5%
193rd	Tanzania	98.61	-1.0%
194th	Afghanistan	98.67	0.5%
195th	Cameroon	99.09	0.2%
196th	Benin	99.18	0.0%
197th	Solomon Islands	99.53	-1.5%
198th	Senegal	99.89	-0.5%
199th	Burkina Faso	100.22	0.9%
200th	Mali	100.46	1.4%
201st	Syrian Arab Republic	100.49	-1.0%
202nd	Chad	101.60	-0.6%
203rd	Côte d'Ivoire	101.88	-0.1%
204th	Cabo Verde	102.80	-0.7%
205th	Burundi	103.65	1.2%
206th	Zimbabwe	103.94	-0.1%
207th	Guinea-Bissau	104.18	-0.2%
208th	Comoros	104.19	0.0%
209th	Rwanda	104.64	0.5%
210th	Uganda	104.75	0.1%
211th	Eswatini	105.57	-2.5%
212th	Zambia	106.26	-0.5%
213th	Kenya	107.66	-0.8%
214th	Yemen, Republic of	115.61	0.7%
215th	Marshall Islands	115.97	-0.2%

FAQ

What was Greenland's dependency ratio in 1988?▾

Greenland's dependency ratio in 1988 was 40.19. This ranked 5th globally.

How did Greenland's dependency ratio change in 1988?▾

Greenland's dependency ratio increased by 1.7% in 1988 compared to 1987.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 1988?▾

Marshall Islands had the highest dependency ratio in 1988 at 115.97.

What is the dependency ratio of Greenland in 1988?▾

The dependency ratio of Greenland in 1988 was 40.19. This ranked 5th globally.

How does 1988 compare to 1987 for Greenland's dependency ratio?▾

Greenland's dependency ratio went from 39.52 in 1987 to 40.19 in 1988, a 1.7% increase.

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