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Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of - Dependency Ratio 2016

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

44.01 −0.42 from 2015 Global rank: 35th

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio was 44.01 in 2016, decreased +0.42 from 44.43 in 2015. This was the 35th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2016▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 2016
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Qatar	17.36	-1.7%
2nd	United Arab Emirates	22.39	-0.3%
3rd	Singapore	28.15	1.7%
4th	Macao SAR, China	28.73	3.8%
5th	Bahrain	29.24	-2.6%
6th	Cayman Islands	31.28	0.0%
7th	Kuwait	32.01	0.2%
8th	Oman	32.77	-0.8%
9th	British Virgin Islands	35.63	0.1%
10th	Korea	36.46	0.0%
11th	Maldives	36.57	-2.2%
12th	Turks and Caicos Islands	36.73	-1.1%
13th	Saudi Arabia	37.23	-0.8%
14th	Hong Kong SAR, China	37.91	2.9%
15th	Brunei Darussalam	38.01	-1.0%
16th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	38.07	1.3%
17th	Mauritius	38.46	0.2%
18th	Trinidad and Tobago	38.77	1.6%
19th	Palau	38.85	0.6%
20th	St. Kitts and Nevis	38.99	-1.0%
21st	Andorra	39.10	-0.7%
22nd	Seychelles	39.40	-0.8%
23rd	St. Lucia	39.73	-2.1%
24th	Thailand	39.89	0.4%
25th	Cyprus	40.20	1.0%
26th	China	40.44	2.1%
27th	Greenland	40.60	0.2%
28th	Antigua and Barbuda	41.02	-0.9%
29th	Jamaica	41.54	-2.2%
30th	Azerbaijan	42.27	2.3%
31st	Northern Mariana Islands	42.54	0.4%
32nd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	42.89	2.0%
33rd	Slovak Republic	43.00	2.8%
34th	Brazil	43.44	-0.4%
35th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	44.01	-0.9%
36th	Luxembourg	44.08	-0.8%
37th	Viet Nam	44.39	1.4%
38th	Ukraine	44.49	2.7%
39th	Cuba	44.85	0.3%
40th	Belarus	44.94	2.5%
41st	Moldova	44.96	5.2%
42nd	Poland	45.03	2.7%
43rd	Russian Federation	45.09	3.3%
44th	Aruba	45.16	2.1%
45th	Costa Rica	45.34	-0.4%
46th	Chile	45.36	0.1%
47th	French Polynesia	45.51	-0.9%
48th	Bahamas, The	45.54	-0.9%
49th	Colombia	45.57	-1.4%
50th	Türkiye	45.59	-0.8%
51st	Dominica	45.60	0.0%
52nd	Malaysia	45.73	-0.7%
53rd	Armenia	45.91	2.0%
54th	Albania	46.04	0.0%
55th	North Macedonia	46.39	1.1%
56th	Bermuda	46.43	1.4%
57th	Liechtenstein	46.44	1.7%
58th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	46.82	1.7%
59th	Myanmar	47.04	-0.6%
60th	Tunisia	47.11	1.6%
61st	Barbados	47.30	0.0%
62nd	Bhutan	47.55	-1.6%
63rd	Grenada	47.65	-0.7%
64th	Canada	48.39	1.7%
65th	Malta	48.83	1.2%
66th	Curaçao	48.95	0.8%
67th	Austria	48.96	0.5%
68th	New Caledonia	48.96	-0.6%
69th	Switzerland	49.06	0.8%
70th	Indonesia	49.08	-0.6%
71st	Hungary	49.14	1.8%
72nd	Channel Islands	49.30	1.1%
73rd	Kosovo	49.42	-1.8%
74th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	49.49	-0.5%
75th	Romania	49.89	1.9%
76th	Uzbekistan	50.06	1.5%
77th	Montenegro	50.10	1.6%
78th	San Marino	50.18	0.0%
79th	Slovenia	50.22	2.7%
80th	Turkmenistan	50.36	1.0%
81st	St. Martin (French part)	50.56	0.3%
82nd	United States	50.79	0.8%
83rd	Spain	50.80	0.7%
84th	Lebanon	50.87	5.2%
85th	Serbia	50.87	2.2%
86th	South Africa	51.06	0.5%
87th	Iceland	51.08	-0.3%
88th	Cabo Verde	51.10	-0.5%
89th	Sri Lanka	51.11	0.6%
90th	Morocco	51.14	-0.1%
91st	Lithuania	51.33	1.9%
92nd	India	51.58	-1.6%
93rd	Australia	51.60	1.1%
94th	Czechia	51.61	3.0%
95th	Mongolia	51.73	3.3%
96th	Georgia	51.75	2.4%
97th	Croatia	52.06	1.7%
98th	New Zealand	52.31	-0.4%
99th	Mexico	52.40	-1.1%
100th	Norway	52.42	0.6%
101st	Germany	52.58	0.9%
102nd	Netherlands	52.70	0.5%
103rd	Suriname	52.74	-1.2%
104th	Ireland	52.78	0.5%
105th	Bulgaria	52.91	2.2%
106th	Puerto Rico (US)	53.10	0.5%
107th	European Union	53.24	1.2%
108th	Dominican Republic	53.30	-0.7%
109th	Fiji	53.33	-0.3%
110th	Algeria	53.44	2.6%
111th	Guam	53.55	1.2%
112th	Panama	53.95	-0.3%
113th	Kazakhstan	54.03	2.9%
114th	Portugal	54.11	1.0%
115th	Latvia	54.28	2.4%
116th	Belize	54.40	-2.9%
117th	El Salvador	54.42	-2.0%
118th	Ecuador	54.63	-1.6%
119th	Estonia	54.65	1.9%
120th	Belgium	54.65	0.8%
121st	Libya	54.81	-0.4%
122nd	Peru	55.03	-0.9%
123rd	Paraguay	55.15	-0.7%
124th	Guyana	55.26	0.0%
125th	Bangladesh	55.37	-1.9%
126th	Gibraltar	55.44	0.8%
127th	Uruguay	55.47	-0.3%
128th	Denmark	55.56	0.4%
129th	Greece	55.85	1.2%
130th	Italy	55.92	0.6%
131st	United Kingdom	55.92	0.9%
132nd	Argentina	56.05	0.0%
133rd	Cambodia	57.63	0.3%
134th	Nicaragua	57.78	-1.1%
135th	Isle of Man	57.84	1.3%
136th	American Samoa	58.27	-0.7%
137th	Philippines	58.40	-1.9%
138th	Lao PDR	58.63	-1.7%
139th	Finland	58.66	1.8%
140th	Virgin Islands (US)	58.84	1.0%
141st	Kyrgyz Republic	59.06	1.6%
142nd	Tuvalu	59.18	-0.7%
143rd	Sweden	59.49	1.1%
144th	France	59.66	1.2%
145th	Djibouti	60.37	-2.2%
146th	Honduras	60.82	-2.2%
147th	Botswana	60.84	-0.4%
148th	Micronesia, Federated States of	60.87	-0.3%
149th	Jordan	60.96	-1.1%
150th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	60.97	-1.4%
151st	Faroe Islands	61.47	0.5%
152nd	Haiti	61.59	-1.3%
153rd	Nepal	61.62	-1.7%
154th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	62.34	0.6%
155th	Kiribati	63.29	-0.4%
156th	Papua New Guinea	63.40	-1.0%
157th	Tajikistan	64.63	0.0%
158th	Israel	65.33	1.1%
159th	Nauru	66.15	0.3%
160th	Marshall Islands	66.16	-1.8%
161st	Eswatini	66.25	-1.4%
162nd	Namibia	66.91	0.2%
163rd	Guatemala	66.96	-1.9%
164th	Japan	67.32	2.0%
165th	Lesotho	67.93	-0.3%
166th	Gabon	68.29	-0.1%
167th	Equatorial Guinea	71.25	0.1%
168th	Ghana	71.73	-0.8%
169th	Vanuatu	73.91	1.0%
170th	Pakistan	73.91	-0.3%
171st	Tonga	74.03	-0.8%
172nd	Samoa	75.39	0.2%
173rd	West Bank and Gaza	75.92	-0.7%
174th	Iraq	75.94	-1.0%
175th	Solomon Islands	76.21	-0.9%
176th	Timor-Leste	78.05	-2.2%
177th	Rwanda	78.24	-0.9%
178th	Comoros	78.42	-0.5%
179th	Kenya	78.64	-1.7%
180th	Togo	79.33	-0.3%
181st	Yemen, Republic of	79.67	-0.8%
182nd	Madagascar	80.03	-1.2%
183rd	Syrian Arab Republic	80.12	-1.0%
184th	Sierra Leone	80.43	-1.6%
185th	Congo, Republic of	80.90	0.6%
186th	Guinea-Bissau	81.25	-0.9%
187th	Côte d'Ivoire	81.31	0.4%
188th	São Tomé and Principe	82.82	-0.8%
189th	Liberia	83.32	-0.5%
190th	Senegal	83.83	-1.1%
191st	Sudan	84.64	-1.6%
192nd	Cameroon	84.73	-0.6%
193rd	Gambia, The	85.00	-0.9%
194th	Eritrea	85.33	0.0%
195th	South Sudan	86.10	2.6%
196th	Benin	86.37	-0.4%
197th	Guinea	87.12	-1.0%
198th	Zambia	87.27	-1.3%
199th	Zimbabwe	88.33	-0.6%
200th	Nigeria	89.06	-0.7%
201st	Tanzania	89.30	-1.2%
202nd	Monaco	89.37	3.3%
203rd	Mauritania	91.19	-0.4%
204th	Burkina Faso	91.95	-0.7%
205th	Angola	92.19	0.0%
206th	Malawi	92.47	-1.8%
207th	Afghanistan	92.89	-1.8%
208th	Mozambique	93.61	-0.3%
209th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	96.20	-0.3%
210th	Uganda	97.95	-2.1%
211th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	99.88	-0.2%
212th	Burundi	99.94	2.9%
213th	Chad	102.28	-0.1%
214th	Mali	102.31	-0.2%
215th	Central African Republic	104.21	0.3%
216th	Niger	106.06	-0.7%

FAQ

What was Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio in 2016?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio in 2016 was 44.01. This ranked 35th globally.

How did Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio change in 2016?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio decreased by 0.9% in 2016 compared to 2015.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 2016?▾

Niger had the highest dependency ratio in 2016 at 106.06.

What is the dependency ratio of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2016?▾

The dependency ratio of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2016 was 44.01. This ranked 35th globally.

How does 2016 compare to 2015 for Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio went from 44.43 in 2015 to 44.01 in 2016, a 0.9% decrease.

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