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Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of - Dependency Ratio 1972

Name: Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of Dependency Ratio 1972
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

77.48 −0.19 from 1971 Global rank: 81st

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio was 77.48 in 1972, decreased +0.19 from 77.67 in 1971. This was the 81st highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1972▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 1972
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	United Arab Emirates	42.45	-3.1%
2nd	Japan	44.50	1.6%
3rd	Serbia	45.76	-0.4%
4th	Hungary	47.19	-0.2%
5th	Croatia	47.92	-0.2%
6th	Bulgaria	48.30	0.3%
7th	Russian Federation	49.19	-1.7%
8th	Finland	49.48	-1.5%
9th	Czechia	50.71	0.8%
10th	Ukraine	50.89	-0.4%
11th	Slovenia	51.23	0.3%
12th	Latvia	51.24	0.6%
13th	Romania	51.27	0.5%
14th	Estonia	51.58	0.5%
15th	Poland	51.83	-1.8%
16th	Luxembourg	52.18	-1.3%
17th	Andorra	52.23	-2.2%
18th	Sweden	53.82	1.2%
19th	Gibraltar	53.96	1.2%
20th	Bermuda	54.03	-1.1%
21st	San Marino	54.28	0.1%
22nd	Switzerland	54.55	-0.1%
23rd	Malta	54.60	-2.3%
24th	Liechtenstein	55.02	-1.2%
25th	Channel Islands	55.47	0.2%
26th	Denmark	55.50	0.5%
27th	Greece	55.77	0.2%
28th	Moldova	56.17	-2.2%
29th	Slovak Republic	56.34	-1.2%
30th	Italy	56.55	0.8%
31st	European Union	56.72	0.0%
32nd	Macao SAR, China	56.72	-19.3%
33rd	Argentina	57.19	0.4%
34th	Belarus	57.36	-2.3%
35th	Canada	57.82	-2.9%
36th	Uruguay	58.19	0.0%
37th	Monaco	58.24	0.9%
38th	Germany	58.41	-0.2%
39th	Australia	58.44	-0.6%
40th	Belgium	58.45	-0.3%
41st	Netherlands	59.06	-0.8%
42nd	Lithuania	59.31	0.1%
43rd	United States	59.41	-2.4%
44th	Norway	59.82	0.2%
45th	Georgia	59.90	-1.8%
46th	United Kingdom	60.00	0.6%
47th	France	60.44	0.0%
48th	Spain	60.50	0.3%
49th	North Macedonia	61.36	-1.3%
50th	Portugal	61.44	-0.3%
51st	Austria	62.59	-0.1%
52nd	Montenegro	62.91	-2.0%
53rd	Bosnia and Herzegovina	63.02	-2.4%
54th	Hong Kong SAR, China	64.40	-4.6%
55th	Qatar	65.38	2.1%
56th	Israel	65.73	0.0%
57th	Cyprus	65.76	-0.3%
58th	Singapore	66.22	-4.5%
59th	Faroe Islands	66.42	-0.9%
60th	New Zealand	66.59	-1.0%
61st	Kazakhstan	66.60	-1.9%
62nd	Isle of Man	67.55	1.4%
63rd	Iceland	68.25	-1.8%
64th	Guam	68.29	-1.3%
65th	Nauru	68.97	-6.0%
66th	Aruba	69.81	-2.4%
67th	Barbados	69.87	-0.8%
68th	Chile	70.19	-1.4%
69th	British Virgin Islands	70.77	-0.6%
70th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	71.15	-1.5%
71st	Virgin Islands (US)	71.24	3.2%
72nd	Armenia	72.14	-3.1%
73rd	Ireland	72.89	-0.5%
74th	Timor-Leste	73.78	0.2%
75th	Puerto Rico (US)	74.72	-2.4%
76th	Sri Lanka	75.70	-1.0%
77th	Cuba	76.28	0.3%
78th	Bahamas, The	76.54	-0.4%
79th	Cayman Islands	77.28	-4.0%
80th	New Caledonia	77.31	1.2%
81st	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	77.48	-0.2%
82nd	Gabon	77.69	1.5%
83rd	Nepal	77.79	0.3%
84th	Mauritius	77.83	-3.1%
85th	Curaçao	77.84	-2.3%
86th	Trinidad and Tobago	78.58	-2.7%
87th	China	79.12	-0.9%
88th	Greenland	79.57	-3.9%
89th	Myanmar	79.73	-0.4%
90th	Bhutan	79.79	0.3%
91st	Korea	80.06	-2.0%
92nd	Guinea	80.72	0.6%
93rd	India	81.31	-0.3%
94th	Equatorial Guinea	81.38	0.5%
95th	Haiti	81.38	0.2%
96th	Brazil	81.40	-1.5%
97th	Mali	81.41	1.0%
98th	Sierra Leone	81.48	0.8%
99th	Gambia, The	81.71	0.5%
100th	Kyrgyz Republic	82.39	-0.5%
101st	Egypt, Arab Republic of	82.42	-0.3%
102nd	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	83.33	0.0%
103rd	Kuwait	83.53	-0.6%
104th	Lao PDR	83.63	0.4%
105th	Brunei Darussalam	83.81	-1.3%
106th	Indonesia	84.40	0.0%
107th	South Africa	84.59	-0.1%
108th	Tuvalu	84.69	-3.6%
109th	Albania	85.05	-1.7%
110th	Nigeria	85.21	0.8%
111th	Liberia	85.30	0.5%
112th	Bahrain	85.42	-4.5%
113th	Burkina Faso	85.66	1.2%
114th	Guinea-Bissau	86.25	0.4%
115th	Malaysia	86.28	-1.9%
116th	Eritrea	86.49	1.0%
117th	Costa Rica	86.73	-2.5%
118th	Central African Republic	86.76	0.7%
119th	Kosovo	87.07	-0.9%
120th	Lesotho	87.12	-2.0%
121st	Cameroon	87.16	1.0%
122nd	Mozambique	87.21	0.7%
123rd	Congo, Democratic Republic of	87.60	0.8%
124th	Fiji	87.74	-2.2%
125th	Senegal	88.30	0.1%
126th	Lebanon	88.42	-1.7%
127th	Thailand	88.55	-1.5%
128th	Antigua and Barbuda	88.72	-3.2%
129th	Pakistan	88.74	0.5%
130th	Türkiye	88.75	-0.7%
131st	Afghanistan	88.78	0.9%
132nd	Papua New Guinea	88.97	0.2%
133rd	South Sudan	89.00	0.6%
134th	Chad	89.16	1.0%
135th	French Polynesia	90.63	-2.1%
136th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	90.71	-1.1%
137th	Panama	90.71	-0.7%
138th	Malawi	90.88	0.5%
139th	Azerbaijan	90.93	-2.9%
140th	Djibouti	91.02	0.8%
141st	Côte d'Ivoire	91.07	0.1%
142nd	Bangladesh	91.10	0.6%
143rd	Viet Nam	91.22	-1.3%
144th	Mauritania	91.63	1.2%
145th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	91.66	-0.2%
146th	Ecuador	92.05	-0.6%
147th	Tunisia	92.15	-0.7%
148th	Yemen, Republic of	92.47	1.9%
149th	Colombia	92.47	-1.8%
150th	Saudi Arabia	92.53	-0.8%
151st	Maldives	92.62	0.3%
152nd	Peru	92.96	-0.2%
153rd	Cambodia	93.29	0.8%
154th	Guatemala	93.49	0.0%
155th	Togo	93.54	0.5%
156th	Namibia	93.60	0.6%
157th	St. Martin (French part)	93.74	0.1%
158th	American Samoa	93.95	-2.2%
159th	Congo, Republic of	94.42	0.6%
160th	Tajikistan	94.72	-0.5%
161st	Tanzania	95.03	0.4%
162nd	Benin	95.12	0.9%
163rd	Burundi	95.16	2.4%
164th	Vanuatu	95.19	-0.4%
165th	Kiribati	95.72	-0.7%
166th	Paraguay	95.78	-1.3%
167th	Angola	96.15	-0.3%
168th	Seychelles	96.27	-1.6%
169th	Iraq	96.61	2.7%
170th	Turkmenistan	96.67	-1.4%
171st	Grenada	97.58	-1.9%
172nd	Niger	98.00	-0.5%
173rd	Uganda	98.03	1.1%
174th	Tonga	98.12	-0.2%
175th	Morocco	98.27	-0.7%
176th	Northern Mariana Islands	98.46	-4.2%
177th	Guyana	98.50	-1.2%
178th	El Salvador	98.59	-0.9%
179th	Uzbekistan	98.72	-1.2%
180th	Nicaragua	99.74	-0.3%
181st	Madagascar	99.91	0.3%
182nd	Dominican Republic	100.25	-1.8%
183rd	Oman	100.46	1.8%
184th	Comoros	100.62	0.9%
185th	Eswatini	100.93	0.3%
186th	Marshall Islands	100.99	4.9%
187th	Philippines	101.07	-0.8%
188th	Sudan	101.14	0.3%
189th	Rwanda	101.19	-1.6%
190th	Solomon Islands	101.20	0.5%
191st	Algeria	101.41	-0.5%
192nd	Palau	101.72	-0.4%
193rd	Mexico	101.91	0.0%
194th	São Tomé and Principe	101.93	-0.6%
195th	Micronesia, Federated States of	102.34	0.9%
196th	Cabo Verde	102.41	0.2%
197th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	102.48	-0.2%
198th	Jamaica	103.17	-0.7%
199th	Honduras	103.57	-0.2%
200th	Zambia	104.47	1.3%
201st	Turks and Caicos Islands	104.71	-3.4%
202nd	Zimbabwe	105.60	-0.3%
203rd	Mongolia	105.75	-0.2%
204th	Ghana	105.82	-0.5%
205th	Syrian Arab Republic	106.89	-0.1%
206th	St. Kitts and Nevis	107.45	-5.0%
207th	Suriname	107.66	-2.8%
208th	Belize	110.35	-1.9%
209th	Botswana	113.04	-1.3%
210th	Dominica	113.88	-3.0%
211th	Jordan	115.14	0.2%
212th	Samoa	115.83	-1.1%
213th	Kenya	117.59	0.5%
214th	Libya	117.90	-0.2%
215th	St. Lucia	121.41	0.2%

FAQ

What was Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio in 1972?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio in 1972 was 77.48. This ranked 81st globally.

How did Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio change in 1972?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio decreased by 0.2% in 1972 compared to 1971.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 1972?▾

St. Lucia had the highest dependency ratio in 1972 at 121.41.

What is the dependency ratio of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 1972?▾

The dependency ratio of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 1972 was 77.48. This ranked 81st globally.

How does 1972 compare to 1971 for Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio went from 77.67 in 1971 to 77.48 in 1972, a 0.2% decrease.

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