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Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of - Dependency Ratio 1997

Name: Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of Dependency Ratio 1997
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

46.55 +0.13 from 1996 Global rank: 23rd

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio was 46.55 in 1997, increased +0.13 from 46.42 in 1996. This was the 23rd highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1997▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 1997
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	United Arab Emirates	33.91	-4.4%
2nd	Singapore	34.04	-2.2%
3rd	Cayman Islands	34.31	-1.0%
4th	Andorra	36.51	0.9%
5th	Qatar	36.53	-2.0%
6th	Korea	39.30	-1.5%
7th	Northern Mariana Islands	39.87	-8.4%
8th	Hong Kong SAR, China	40.23	-0.6%
9th	Liechtenstein	40.82	-0.5%
10th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	40.85	0.2%
11th	San Marino	42.99	0.5%
12th	Slovenia	43.40	-0.8%
13th	Bermuda	43.52	0.1%
14th	Japan	44.57	1.4%
15th	British Virgin Islands	44.93	-1.0%
16th	Thailand	45.28	-1.2%
17th	Czechia	45.35	-1.4%
18th	Aruba	45.36	-2.8%
19th	Cuba	45.37	0.4%
20th	Spain	45.76	-0.5%
21st	Channel Islands	46.04	0.3%
22nd	Germany	46.47	0.2%
23rd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	46.55	0.3%
24th	Italy	46.55	1.0%
25th	Macao SAR, China	46.56	-1.0%
26th	Netherlands	46.90	0.5%
27th	Palau	47.21	-4.1%
28th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	47.28	-3.9%
29th	Croatia	47.30	1.0%
30th	Hungary	47.30	-0.6%
31st	Serbia	47.33	0.9%
32nd	Turks and Caicos Islands	47.40	-0.9%
33rd	Canada	47.57	-0.4%
34th	Romania	47.58	-0.4%
35th	Greenland	47.62	0.3%
36th	Mauritius	48.11	-1.9%
37th	Russian Federation	48.19	-1.5%
38th	Portugal	48.25	-0.3%
39th	Switzerland	48.36	0.4%
40th	Slovak Republic	48.42	-2.1%
41st	European Union	48.47	-0.2%
42nd	Bulgaria	48.49	-0.8%
43rd	Greece	48.62	-0.3%
44th	Malta	48.66	-1.3%
45th	China	48.68	-2.0%
46th	Luxembourg	48.81	0.9%
47th	Denmark	48.95	0.6%
48th	Austria	49.05	-0.3%
49th	Poland	49.75	-1.8%
50th	Ukraine	49.92	-1.4%
51st	Australia	49.93	-0.2%
52nd	Finland	49.98	0.0%
53rd	Montenegro	50.02	-0.5%
54th	Bahrain	50.30	-2.2%
55th	St. Martin (French part)	50.68	-0.7%
56th	Cyprus	50.72	-1.8%
57th	Kuwait	50.73	-2.9%
58th	Trinidad and Tobago	50.78	-3.9%
59th	Barbados	50.85	-0.7%
60th	Belarus	51.05	-1.3%
61st	North Macedonia	51.11	-0.7%
62nd	United States	51.29	-0.7%
63rd	Latvia	51.47	-0.9%
64th	Estonia	51.69	-0.5%
65th	Gibraltar	51.81	0.4%
66th	Belgium	51.82	0.6%
67th	Lithuania	51.92	0.2%
68th	Sri Lanka	52.17	-2.0%
69th	Ireland	52.31	-2.6%
70th	Bahamas, The	52.71	0.3%
71st	New Zealand	52.75	-0.1%
72nd	France	53.08	0.1%
73rd	Virgin Islands (US)	53.46	0.2%
74th	Brunei Darussalam	53.51	-2.3%
75th	New Caledonia	54.13	-0.5%
76th	Guam	54.59	0.3%
77th	United Kingdom	54.61	-0.4%
78th	Iceland	54.73	-0.7%
79th	Norway	54.88	0.0%
80th	Puerto Rico (US)	54.91	-0.5%
81st	Moldova	55.27	-1.6%
82nd	Georgia	55.30	-0.4%
83rd	Curaçao	55.33	0.4%
84th	Chile	55.37	-0.5%
85th	Isle of Man	55.41	-1.1%
86th	Monaco	55.54	0.5%
87th	Antigua and Barbuda	56.64	-1.3%
88th	Sweden	56.69	-0.4%
89th	Kazakhstan	56.96	-1.9%
90th	Brazil	57.44	-2.1%
91st	Seychelles	57.89	-1.6%
92nd	Indonesia	58.53	-1.6%
93rd	Uruguay	59.50	0.4%
94th	Türkiye	59.56	-2.1%
95th	Faroe Islands	59.79	-0.2%
96th	Albania	59.89	-0.4%
97th	Kosovo	60.16	-2.2%
98th	Libya	60.21	-3.8%
99th	Tunisia	60.61	-2.6%
100th	French Polynesia	60.97	-1.9%
101st	Azerbaijan	61.16	-1.6%
102nd	Colombia	61.24	-1.4%
103rd	Myanmar	61.81	-1.7%
104th	Panama	61.87	-1.3%
105th	Costa Rica	61.91	-2.0%
106th	Argentina	62.03	-0.6%
107th	Lebanon	62.49	-1.9%
108th	Israel	63.42	-1.1%
109th	St. Kitts and Nevis	63.50	-2.9%
110th	Suriname	63.91	-2.1%
111th	Malaysia	63.97	-0.9%
112th	Armenia	64.11	-0.7%
113th	Fiji	64.54	-2.0%
114th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	64.55	-2.2%
115th	Morocco	66.05	-2.0%
116th	Viet Nam	67.27	-3.1%
117th	Mexico	67.41	-1.3%
118th	Guyana	67.54	0.1%
119th	Peru	67.57	-1.7%
120th	Dominican Republic	68.36	-1.2%
121st	Dominica	68.79	-1.2%
122nd	Ecuador	69.07	-0.9%
123rd	India	69.34	-1.2%
124th	Jamaica	69.39	-1.7%
125th	St. Lucia	69.62	-2.5%
126th	Oman	69.97	-2.2%
127th	Mongolia	70.10	-2.6%
128th	Algeria	70.31	-3.3%
129th	Grenada	71.01	0.7%
130th	South Africa	71.62	-0.6%
131st	Saudi Arabia	73.16	-2.2%
132nd	Nauru	73.43	-2.4%
133rd	American Samoa	73.44	0.0%
134th	Bangladesh	73.55	-2.5%
135th	El Salvador	73.70	-1.5%
136th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	73.71	-1.7%
137th	Tuvalu	74.04	0.3%
138th	Kyrgyz Republic	74.13	-2.2%
139th	Jordan	74.99	0.1%
140th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	75.38	-5.9%
141st	Papua New Guinea	75.52	-0.7%
142nd	Uzbekistan	75.83	-1.2%
143rd	Philippines	76.75	-1.1%
144th	Turkmenistan	77.27	-2.1%
145th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	77.73	-0.5%
146th	Botswana	78.24	-3.1%
147th	Bhutan	78.84	-1.7%
148th	Samoa	79.76	0.8%
149th	Paraguay	79.78	-1.5%
150th	Kiribati	80.12	-0.6%
151st	Tonga	80.43	-1.0%
152nd	Djibouti	80.59	-2.8%
153rd	Haiti	81.15	-0.8%
154th	Namibia	82.06	-0.6%
155th	Nepal	82.26	-0.1%
156th	Timor-Leste	82.60	0.0%
157th	Micronesia, Federated States of	82.81	-2.6%
158th	Belize	82.82	-2.2%
159th	Nicaragua	83.72	-2.3%
160th	Lesotho	83.76	-1.5%
161st	Togo	86.27	-1.2%
162nd	Liberia	86.47	-0.5%
163rd	Ghana	86.85	-1.2%
164th	Congo, Republic of	86.92	0.2%
165th	Syrian Arab Republic	87.19	-1.6%
166th	Equatorial Guinea	87.22	0.0%
167th	Eritrea	87.89	3.6%
168th	Gabon	88.35	-1.4%
169th	Marshall Islands	88.92	-4.1%
170th	Solomon Islands	89.05	-1.0%
171st	Honduras	89.18	-1.3%
172nd	Nigeria	89.23	-0.7%
173rd	Lao PDR	89.24	-0.4%
174th	Sierra Leone	89.43	0.2%
175th	Iraq	89.83	-0.8%
176th	Maldives	89.89	-3.4%
177th	Vanuatu	89.95	-1.8%
178th	Zimbabwe	90.53	-3.8%
179th	Pakistan	90.77	-0.8%
180th	Mozambique	90.88	-0.3%
181st	Tanzania	91.08	0.5%
182nd	Mauritania	91.50	0.4%
183rd	Senegal	91.59	-0.9%
184th	Cambodia	92.28	-2.9%
185th	Tajikistan	92.30	-1.7%
186th	Central African Republic	92.89	-0.2%
187th	Madagascar	92.94	0.1%
188th	Guatemala	93.04	-0.6%
189th	Guinea	93.21	1.2%
190th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	93.50	2.9%
191st	Angola	93.78	0.1%
192nd	Cabo Verde	94.05	-1.8%
193rd	South Sudan	94.11	0.3%
194th	Eswatini	94.35	-2.9%
195th	São Tomé and Principe	94.44	-1.3%
196th	Côte d'Ivoire	94.97	-0.8%
197th	Cameroon	95.68	-1.0%
198th	Niger	96.21	0.5%
199th	Guinea-Bissau	96.34	-1.1%
200th	Benin	96.64	-0.4%
201st	Sudan	96.66	-0.3%
202nd	Malawi	97.21	-0.3%
203rd	Kenya	97.33	-1.2%
204th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	98.72	0.4%
205th	Gambia, The	100.56	0.1%
206th	Burkina Faso	101.02	-0.5%
207th	Mali	101.45	-0.5%
208th	West Bank and Gaza	102.11	-0.8%
209th	Zambia	103.15	-0.3%
210th	Chad	105.03	1.3%
211th	Afghanistan	106.41	1.1%
212th	Comoros	108.79	-0.1%
213th	Rwanda	109.72	-3.7%
214th	Burundi	110.14	1.2%
215th	Uganda	110.44	0.9%
216th	Yemen, Republic of	112.97	-1.4%

FAQ

What was Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio in 1997?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio in 1997 was 46.55. This ranked 23rd globally.

How did Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio change in 1997?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio increased by 0.3% in 1997 compared to 1996.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 1997?▾

Yemen, Republic of had the highest dependency ratio in 1997 at 112.97.

What is the dependency ratio of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 1997?▾

The dependency ratio of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 1997 was 46.55. This ranked 23rd globally.

How does 1997 compare to 1996 for Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio went from 46.42 in 1996 to 46.55 in 1997, a 0.3% increase.

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