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Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of - Dependency Ratio 2015

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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

44.43 −0.19 from 2014 Global rank: 43rd

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio was 44.43 in 2015, decreased +0.19 from 44.62 in 2014. This was the 43rd highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2015▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 2015
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Qatar	17.65	-3.5%
2nd	United Arab Emirates	22.45	0.0%
3rd	Singapore	27.68	1.4%
4th	Macao SAR, China	27.68	4.1%
5th	Bahrain	30.03	0.8%
6th	Cayman Islands	31.27	0.1%
7th	Kuwait	31.95	0.3%
8th	Oman	33.02	0.6%
9th	British Virgin Islands	35.59	-1.2%
10th	Korea	36.46	0.0%
11th	Hong Kong SAR, China	36.84	2.8%
12th	Turks and Caicos Islands	37.14	-1.6%
13th	Maldives	37.41	-2.0%
14th	Saudi Arabia	37.55	-1.9%
15th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	37.59	0.6%
16th	Trinidad and Tobago	38.14	1.5%
17th	Brunei Darussalam	38.38	-1.2%
18th	Mauritius	38.39	0.0%
19th	Palau	38.62	1.4%
20th	Andorra	39.36	-0.4%
21st	St. Kitts and Nevis	39.37	-1.9%
22nd	China	39.61	1.9%
23rd	Seychelles	39.73	-0.9%
24th	Thailand	39.73	0.4%
25th	Cyprus	39.82	0.7%
26th	Greenland	40.50	0.1%
27th	St. Lucia	40.58	-2.3%
28th	Azerbaijan	41.34	2.2%
29th	Antigua and Barbuda	41.38	-1.1%
30th	Slovak Republic	41.81	2.2%
31st	Iran, Islamic Republic of	42.04	2.0%
32nd	Northern Mariana Islands	42.38	0.4%
33rd	Jamaica	42.47	-2.5%
34th	Moldova	42.74	5.5%
35th	Ukraine	43.33	2.9%
36th	Brazil	43.59	-0.5%
37th	Russian Federation	43.66	3.6%
38th	Viet Nam	43.77	0.9%
39th	Poland	43.84	2.4%
40th	Belarus	43.85	2.6%
41st	Aruba	44.25	1.7%
42nd	Luxembourg	44.42	-0.5%
43rd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	44.43	-0.4%
44th	Cuba	44.72	0.4%
45th	Armenia	45.01	1.8%
46th	Chile	45.33	0.2%
47th	Costa Rica	45.54	-0.6%
48th	Dominica	45.61	-2.2%
49th	Liechtenstein	45.64	1.5%
50th	Bermuda	45.80	0.6%
51st	North Macedonia	45.88	0.9%
52nd	French Polynesia	45.90	-0.8%
53rd	Türkiye	45.95	-1.5%
54th	Bahamas, The	45.95	-0.8%
55th	Malaysia	46.04	-0.9%
56th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	46.05	1.3%
57th	Albania	46.06	-0.1%
58th	Colombia	46.20	-1.3%
59th	Tunisia	46.36	1.5%
60th	Barbados	47.29	0.1%
61st	Myanmar	47.35	-0.8%
62nd	Canada	47.59	1.8%
63rd	Grenada	48.00	-1.1%
64th	Hungary	48.25	1.8%
65th	Malta	48.27	1.2%
66th	Lebanon	48.34	2.7%
67th	Bhutan	48.34	-1.6%
68th	Curaçao	48.55	0.9%
69th	Switzerland	48.69	0.7%
70th	Austria	48.73	0.3%
71st	Channel Islands	48.76	1.2%
72nd	Slovenia	48.90	2.7%
73rd	Romania	48.96	1.9%
74th	New Caledonia	49.25	-0.4%
75th	Montenegro	49.32	1.7%
76th	Uzbekistan	49.34	1.0%
77th	Indonesia	49.36	-0.7%
78th	Serbia	49.76	2.4%
79th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	49.76	-0.6%
80th	Turkmenistan	49.88	0.5%
81st	Mongolia	50.08	2.9%
82nd	Czechia	50.08	3.1%
83rd	San Marino	50.17	0.5%
84th	Kosovo	50.31	-0.3%
85th	Lithuania	50.36	1.4%
86th	United States	50.38	0.8%
87th	St. Martin (French part)	50.42	-0.1%
88th	Spain	50.46	1.0%
89th	Georgia	50.52	2.4%
90th	South Africa	50.78	-0.7%
91st	Sri Lanka	50.79	0.8%
92nd	Australia	51.06	1.1%
93rd	Croatia	51.18	1.5%
94th	Morocco	51.22	-0.2%
95th	Iceland	51.22	0.3%
96th	Cabo Verde	51.35	-1.3%
97th	Bulgaria	51.78	2.4%
98th	Algeria	52.06	2.7%
99th	Norway	52.10	0.4%
100th	Germany	52.12	0.6%
101st	India	52.40	-1.6%
102nd	Netherlands	52.43	0.8%
103rd	Ireland	52.50	0.9%
104th	New Zealand	52.52	-0.4%
105th	Kazakhstan	52.52	3.0%
106th	European Union	52.63	1.3%
107th	Puerto Rico (US)	52.86	0.0%
108th	Guam	52.90	0.9%
109th	Mexico	52.97	-1.0%
110th	Latvia	53.00	2.5%
111th	Suriname	53.40	-1.3%
112th	Fiji	53.47	-0.2%
113th	Portugal	53.55	0.9%
114th	Estonia	53.62	2.0%
115th	Dominican Republic	53.69	-0.8%
116th	Panama	54.10	-0.3%
117th	Belgium	54.22	0.9%
118th	Gibraltar	54.99	1.4%
119th	Libya	55.05	-0.2%
120th	Greece	55.19	1.2%
121st	Guyana	55.24	-0.3%
122nd	Denmark	55.33	0.4%
123rd	United Kingdom	55.40	1.0%
124th	Ecuador	55.49	-1.4%
125th	Peru	55.52	-0.7%
126th	El Salvador	55.54	-2.3%
127th	Paraguay	55.56	-1.0%
128th	Italy	55.61	0.9%
129th	Uruguay	55.66	-0.4%
130th	Belize	56.04	-2.8%
131st	Argentina	56.05	0.0%
132nd	Bangladesh	56.46	-2.0%
133rd	Isle of Man	57.09	1.6%
134th	Cambodia	57.48	0.2%
135th	Finland	57.64	2.2%
136th	Kyrgyz Republic	58.15	2.2%
137th	Virgin Islands (US)	58.26	1.7%
138th	Nicaragua	58.42	-1.2%
139th	American Samoa	58.68	-0.7%
140th	Sweden	58.84	1.6%
141st	France	58.97	1.6%
142nd	Philippines	59.52	-1.5%
143rd	Tuvalu	59.62	-0.7%
144th	Lao PDR	59.65	-2.0%
145th	Botswana	61.06	0.1%
146th	Micronesia, Federated States of	61.08	-0.7%
147th	Faroe Islands	61.18	1.1%
148th	Jordan	61.62	-0.7%
149th	Djibouti	61.70	-1.9%
150th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	61.81	-1.5%
151st	Egypt, Arab Republic of	61.98	0.7%
152nd	Honduras	62.17	-2.2%
153rd	Haiti	62.40	-1.4%
154th	Nepal	62.68	-1.9%
155th	Kiribati	63.53	-0.9%
156th	Papua New Guinea	64.04	-1.0%
157th	Israel	64.64	1.0%
158th	Tajikistan	64.65	-0.2%
159th	Nauru	65.94	0.8%
160th	Japan	66.02	2.4%
161st	Namibia	66.78	-0.1%
162nd	Eswatini	67.16	-1.5%
163rd	Marshall Islands	67.40	-2.0%
164th	Lesotho	68.14	0.0%
165th	Guatemala	68.25	-1.9%
166th	Gabon	68.35	-0.4%
167th	Equatorial Guinea	71.20	0.1%
168th	Ghana	72.31	-0.6%
169th	Vanuatu	73.20	1.0%
170th	Pakistan	74.16	-0.4%
171st	Tonga	74.64	-0.8%
172nd	Samoa	75.25	-0.1%
173rd	West Bank and Gaza	76.46	-0.8%
174th	Iraq	76.75	-0.9%
175th	Solomon Islands	76.91	-0.9%
176th	Comoros	78.81	-0.4%
177th	Rwanda	78.92	-0.8%
178th	Togo	79.54	-0.2%
179th	Timor-Leste	79.80	-2.2%
180th	Kenya	79.99	-1.4%
181st	Yemen, Republic of	80.31	-1.0%
182nd	Congo, Republic of	80.40	1.0%
183rd	Syrian Arab Republic	80.91	4.0%
184th	Côte d'Ivoire	80.97	0.7%
185th	Madagascar	81.03	-1.4%
186th	Sierra Leone	81.78	-1.6%
187th	Guinea-Bissau	82.03	-0.9%
188th	São Tomé and Principe	83.46	-0.4%
189th	Liberia	83.77	-0.4%
190th	South Sudan	83.88	2.4%
191st	Senegal	84.80	-0.9%
192nd	Cameroon	85.20	-0.9%
193rd	Eritrea	85.32	0.6%
194th	Gambia, The	85.76	-0.8%
195th	Sudan	85.99	-1.7%
196th	Monaco	86.53	4.0%
197th	Benin	86.69	-0.4%
198th	Guinea	87.99	-1.1%
199th	Zambia	88.38	-1.2%
200th	Zimbabwe	88.84	-0.1%
201st	Nigeria	89.72	-0.4%
202nd	Tanzania	90.38	-0.9%
203rd	Mauritania	91.52	-0.3%
204th	Angola	92.18	0.1%
205th	Burkina Faso	92.60	-0.5%
206th	Mozambique	93.93	-0.3%
207th	Malawi	94.17	-1.5%
208th	Afghanistan	94.61	-1.8%
209th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	96.53	0.0%
210th	Burundi	97.11	2.6%
211th	Uganda	100.03	-1.6%
212th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	100.06	-0.2%
213th	Chad	102.37	0.0%
214th	Mali	102.53	0.0%
215th	Central African Republic	103.92	2.4%
216th	Niger	106.77	-0.5%

FAQ

What was Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio in 2015?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio in 2015 was 44.43. This ranked 43rd globally.

How did Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio change in 2015?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio decreased by 0.4% in 2015 compared to 2014.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 2015?▾

Niger had the highest dependency ratio in 2015 at 106.77.

What is the dependency ratio of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2015?▾

The dependency ratio of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2015 was 44.43. This ranked 43rd globally.

How does 2015 compare to 2014 for Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio went from 44.62 in 2014 to 44.43 in 2015, a 0.4% decrease.

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