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Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of - Dependency Ratio 2019

Name: Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of Dependency Ratio 2019
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

42.95 −0.04 from 2018 Global rank: 30th

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio was 42.95 in 2019, decreased +0.04 from 42.99 in 2018. This was the 30th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2019▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 2019
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Qatar	18.66	4.9%
2nd	United Arab Emirates	22.22	-0.2%
3rd	Bahrain	30.05	2.8%
4th	Singapore	30.19	2.1%
5th	Cayman Islands	31.46	0.2%
6th	Kuwait	32.24	0.3%
7th	Macao SAR, China	32.86	5.3%
8th	Maldives	34.23	-2.1%
9th	British Virgin Islands	34.35	-1.7%
10th	Oman	36.23	6.0%
11th	Turks and Caicos Islands	36.44	0.0%
12th	Brunei Darussalam	37.43	-0.3%
13th	Korea	37.88	1.6%
14th	Andorra	38.01	-0.8%
15th	St. Lucia	38.13	-1.1%
16th	Mauritius	38.44	-0.1%
17th	Jamaica	39.04	-1.9%
18th	Seychelles	39.09	0.0%
19th	Saudi Arabia	39.28	0.8%
20th	St. Kitts and Nevis	39.42	0.9%
21st	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	39.87	1.5%
22nd	Palau	39.95	1.0%
23rd	Trinidad and Tobago	40.22	1.5%
24th	Antigua and Barbuda	40.61	-0.2%
25th	Thailand	40.61	0.8%
26th	Cyprus	41.46	1.1%
27th	Greenland	41.66	1.3%
28th	Hong Kong SAR, China	41.71	3.2%
29th	Northern Mariana Islands	42.09	-0.8%
30th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	42.95	-0.1%
31st	Bhutan	43.04	-3.6%
32nd	Azerbaijan	43.21	0.2%
33rd	China	43.39	2.0%
34th	Colombia	43.50	-1.3%
35th	Brazil	43.54	0.2%
36th	Luxembourg	43.86	0.1%
37th	French Polynesia	44.11	-1.3%
38th	Curaçao	44.16	-3.7%
39th	Bahamas, The	44.25	-1.0%
40th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	44.78	1.0%
41st	Malaysia	44.84	-0.9%
42nd	Chile	44.99	-0.2%
43rd	Dominica	45.26	-0.7%
44th	Costa Rica	45.42	0.2%
45th	Cuba	45.61	0.8%
46th	Türkiye	45.95	0.9%
47th	Kosovo	46.39	-1.1%
48th	Myanmar	46.40	-0.3%
49th	Viet Nam	46.61	1.0%
50th	Grenada	46.99	-0.3%
51st	Albania	47.04	1.1%
52nd	Slovak Republic	47.17	3.0%
53rd	Ukraine	47.25	1.5%
54th	Malta	47.35	-1.9%
55th	Belarus	47.81	2.0%
56th	Armenia	47.81	0.8%
57th	Aruba	48.10	2.1%
58th	Barbados	48.23	1.0%
59th	Indonesia	48.32	-0.5%
60th	New Caledonia	48.34	-0.2%
61st	Russian Federation	48.59	2.2%
62nd	Bermuda	48.92	1.9%
63rd	Liechtenstein	49.09	1.9%
64th	Poland	49.21	3.0%
65th	North Macedonia	49.26	2.6%
66th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	49.26	0.2%
67th	India	49.38	-1.3%
68th	Tunisia	49.38	1.6%
69th	Iceland	49.64	-0.6%
70th	San Marino	49.99	0.0%
71st	Bosnia and Herzegovina	49.99	2.4%
72nd	Austria	50.07	0.8%
73rd	South Africa	50.09	-1.2%
74th	Canada	50.41	1.4%
75th	Moldova	50.56	3.6%
76th	Switzerland	50.63	1.1%
77th	Channel Islands	50.77	0.6%
78th	Mexico	50.79	-0.9%
79th	Belize	51.04	-1.7%
80th	Spain	51.13	-0.2%
81st	Suriname	51.37	-0.7%
82nd	Morocco	51.40	0.3%
83rd	Sri Lanka	51.58	0.2%
84th	Hungary	51.87	2.2%
85th	Cabo Verde	51.95	0.8%
86th	Ecuador	52.13	-1.4%
87th	United States	52.16	0.9%
88th	El Salvador	52.21	-1.1%
89th	Fiji	52.54	-0.6%
90th	New Zealand	52.60	0.4%
91st	Libya	52.69	-1.6%
92nd	Peru	52.71	-1.6%
93rd	Dominican Republic	52.73	-0.2%
94th	Uzbekistan	52.77	2.1%
95th	Turkmenistan	52.90	1.9%
96th	Australia	52.92	0.9%
97th	Montenegro	52.95	2.1%
98th	Romania	53.02	2.0%
99th	Ireland	53.04	0.0%
100th	Panama	53.40	-0.4%
101st	Norway	53.45	0.5%
102nd	Netherlands	53.51	0.5%
103rd	Slovenia	53.75	1.8%
104th	Lithuania	53.77	0.8%
105th	Guyana	53.97	-0.6%
106th	Bangladesh	54.18	-0.3%
107th	Germany	54.54	1.2%
108th	Uruguay	54.56	-0.6%
109th	Serbia	54.60	2.5%
110th	Paraguay	54.63	-0.2%
111th	Georgia	55.06	2.0%
112th	European Union	55.06	1.1%
113th	Gibraltar	55.30	-0.4%
114th	Puerto Rico (US)	55.56	0.1%
115th	Croatia	55.56	2.1%
116th	Argentina	55.59	-0.5%
117th	Philippines	55.75	-1.3%
118th	Czechia	55.91	2.4%
119th	Bulgaria	55.92	1.7%
120th	Nicaragua	56.01	-1.1%
121st	Belgium	56.06	0.7%
122nd	Portugal	56.06	1.2%
123rd	Djibouti	56.20	-2.3%
124th	Guam	56.48	2.0%
125th	Lao PDR	56.49	-1.1%
126th	Italy	56.56	0.5%
127th	Denmark	56.60	0.7%
128th	Estonia	57.06	1.3%
129th	Latvia	57.10	1.4%
130th	St. Martin (French part)	57.11	11.1%
131st	American Samoa	57.13	-0.6%
132nd	Algeria	57.27	2.0%
133rd	Greece	57.29	0.7%
134th	Mongolia	57.43	3.6%
135th	United Kingdom	57.43	0.7%
136th	Kazakhstan	57.47	1.7%
137th	Honduras	57.55	-1.6%
138th	Cambodia	57.72	-0.1%
139th	Lebanon	57.95	4.0%
140th	Nepal	58.70	-2.5%
141st	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	58.71	-1.2%
142nd	Isle of Man	58.71	0.3%
143rd	Jordan	58.88	-1.3%
144th	Botswana	59.02	-1.3%
145th	Tuvalu	59.47	0.8%
146th	Haiti	59.50	-1.1%
147th	Virgin Islands (US)	59.90	0.5%
148th	Sweden	60.58	0.4%
149th	Kyrgyz Republic	60.73	1.3%
150th	Micronesia, Federated States of	60.88	0.1%
151st	Finland	61.13	1.1%
152nd	France	61.34	0.8%
153rd	Papua New Guinea	61.43	-1.1%
154th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	62.17	-0.5%
155th	Faroe Islands	62.24	0.1%
156th	Marshall Islands	63.03	-1.6%
157th	Guatemala	63.45	-1.7%
158th	Eswatini	63.70	-1.4%
159th	Kiribati	64.01	0.5%
160th	Tajikistan	65.31	0.7%
161st	Nauru	65.66	0.4%
162nd	Lesotho	66.26	-0.9%
163rd	Israel	66.69	0.4%
164th	Namibia	68.20	0.7%
165th	Syrian Arab Republic	68.35	-7.2%
166th	Gabon	68.83	0.3%
167th	Ghana	69.46	-1.1%
168th	Japan	69.48	0.7%
169th	Equatorial Guinea	70.73	-0.5%
170th	Pakistan	72.63	-0.6%
171st	Timor-Leste	72.82	-2.3%
172nd	Tonga	73.09	-0.5%
173rd	Iraq	73.10	-1.4%
174th	Solomon Islands	73.78	-1.1%
175th	Kenya	74.26	-1.9%
176th	Vanuatu	75.47	0.5%
177th	Rwanda	75.50	-1.4%
178th	Comoros	75.50	-1.3%
179th	West Bank and Gaza	75.52	-0.2%
180th	Sierra Leone	76.48	-1.6%
181st	Samoa	77.39	1.0%
182nd	Madagascar	77.76	-0.8%
183rd	Guinea-Bissau	78.29	-1.3%
184th	Togo	78.34	-0.5%
185th	Yemen, Republic of	78.45	-0.4%
186th	São Tomé and Principe	79.52	-1.6%
187th	Senegal	79.76	-1.9%
188th	Sudan	80.50	-1.0%
189th	Congo, Republic of	80.73	-0.3%
190th	Côte d'Ivoire	81.11	-0.3%
191st	Liberia	81.58	-0.9%
192nd	Eritrea	82.01	-1.9%
193rd	Gambia, The	82.28	-1.2%
194th	Cameroon	83.58	-0.6%
195th	Zambia	83.63	-1.5%
196th	Guinea	84.72	-1.0%
197th	Benin	84.88	-0.7%
198th	Zimbabwe	85.45	-1.2%
199th	South Sudan	85.83	-5.0%
200th	Nigeria	85.88	-1.4%
201st	Malawi	86.69	-2.3%
202nd	Tanzania	87.24	-0.6%
203rd	Afghanistan	88.51	-1.5%
204th	Burkina Faso	88.90	-1.4%
205th	Mauritania	89.69	-0.7%
206th	Uganda	91.57	-2.1%
207th	Angola	91.65	-0.3%
208th	Mozambique	92.66	-0.3%
209th	Monaco	95.44	1.2%
210th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	96.35	0.4%
211th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	98.63	-0.4%
212th	Burundi	99.00	-1.5%
213th	Mali	100.42	-0.9%
214th	Chad	100.68	-0.5%
215th	Niger	103.39	-1.0%
216th	Central African Republic	104.95	0.0%

FAQ

What was Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio in 2019?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio in 2019 was 42.95. This ranked 30th globally.

How did Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio change in 2019?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio decreased by 0.1% in 2019 compared to 2018.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 2019?▾

Central African Republic had the highest dependency ratio in 2019 at 104.95.

What is the dependency ratio of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2019?▾

The dependency ratio of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2019 was 42.95. This ranked 30th globally.

How does 2019 compare to 2018 for Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio went from 42.99 in 2018 to 42.95 in 2019, a 0.1% decrease.

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