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Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of - Dependency Ratio 2023

Name: Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of Dependency Ratio 2023
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

44.95 +0.82 from 2022 Global rank: 40th

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio was 44.95 in 2023, increased +0.82 from 44.13 in 2022. This was the 40th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2023▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 2023
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Qatar	20.10	0.7%
2nd	United Arab Emirates	22.00	-0.5%
3rd	Kuwait	27.48	-2.4%
4th	Bahrain	29.25	0.3%
5th	British Virgin Islands	32.17	-2.2%
6th	Maldives	32.26	-0.4%
7th	Cayman Islands	33.04	1.9%
8th	Singapore	33.13	1.0%
9th	Saudi Arabia	36.83	-2.2%
10th	Jamaica	36.98	-0.6%
11th	Turks and Caicos Islands	37.21	0.7%
12th	St. Lucia	37.30	-0.1%
13th	Brunei Darussalam	38.00	0.8%
14th	Macao SAR, China	38.07	2.8%
15th	Andorra	38.25	0.2%
16th	Bhutan	38.56	-2.2%
17th	Oman	38.67	-4.8%
18th	Mauritius	39.02	1.0%
19th	Seychelles	39.80	0.1%
20th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	40.86	0.0%
21st	St. Kitts and Nevis	40.91	1.1%
22nd	Korea	41.45	2.0%
23rd	Palau	41.62	0.9%
24th	Antigua and Barbuda	41.76	0.7%
25th	Malaysia	42.33	-1.3%
26th	Thailand	42.47	1.3%
27th	Bahamas, The	42.50	-0.8%
28th	Trinidad and Tobago	42.61	1.1%
29th	Colombia	42.80	0.1%
30th	Azerbaijan	43.59	0.1%
31st	Cyprus	43.63	1.3%
32nd	French Polynesia	43.80	-0.1%
33rd	Brazil	44.03	0.5%
34th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	44.41	-0.4%
35th	Dominica	44.62	-0.1%
36th	China	44.73	0.0%
37th	Greenland	44.76	2.6%
38th	Luxembourg	44.77	1.0%
39th	Kosovo	44.80	-0.2%
40th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	44.95	1.9%
41st	Costa Rica	45.03	-0.2%
42nd	Chile	45.09	0.1%
43rd	Northern Mariana Islands	45.60	2.8%
44th	Curaçao	46.04	0.7%
45th	Myanmar	46.21	0.0%
46th	Cuba	46.43	0.7%
47th	Grenada	46.45	-0.1%
48th	Belize	46.70	-2.2%
49th	Türkiye	46.72	-0.3%
50th	India	47.01	-0.9%
51st	Indonesia	47.02	-0.5%
52nd	Viet Nam	47.55	0.3%
53rd	Hong Kong SAR, China	47.81	3.5%
54th	South Africa	48.37	-0.4%
55th	New Caledonia	48.40	0.3%
56th	Armenia	48.71	-0.1%
57th	Libya	48.90	-1.9%
58th	Ukraine	48.93	0.8%
59th	Mexico	49.04	-0.7%
60th	Cabo Verde	49.14	-2.5%
61st	Malta	49.15	2.1%
62nd	Ecuador	49.47	-1.2%
63rd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	49.72	0.3%
64th	El Salvador	49.72	-1.2%
65th	Albania	50.02	1.6%
66th	Peru	50.04	-1.0%
67th	Iceland	50.16	-0.4%
68th	Aruba	50.50	1.4%
69th	Suriname	50.53	-0.2%
70th	Barbados	50.56	0.7%
71st	Tunisia	50.61	0.1%
72nd	Fiji	50.89	-0.8%
73rd	Belarus	50.91	1.2%
74th	Morocco	51.20	-0.2%
75th	Philippines	51.22	-2.2%
76th	Spain	51.31	0.6%
77th	Slovak Republic	51.42	1.9%
78th	Channel Islands	51.65	0.5%
79th	Sri Lanka	51.75	0.1%
80th	Russian Federation	51.79	1.6%
81st	Djibouti	52.23	-1.5%
82nd	Panama	52.28	-0.5%
83rd	San Marino	52.39	1.4%
84th	Argentina	52.42	-1.7%
85th	Austria	52.59	1.5%
86th	Dominican Republic	52.66	0.1%
87th	Uruguay	52.67	-0.8%
88th	Liechtenstein	52.70	2.1%
89th	Ireland	52.81	-0.3%
90th	North Macedonia	52.83	1.4%
91st	Nicaragua	52.87	-1.3%
92nd	Switzerland	52.96	1.5%
93rd	Poland	53.04	1.4%
94th	Canada	53.05	0.8%
95th	Bangladesh	53.10	-1.0%
96th	Lithuania	53.24	-0.7%
97th	Bermuda	53.35	2.3%
98th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	53.52	1.7%
99th	Syrian Arab Republic	53.90	-6.6%
100th	United States	53.91	1.0%
101st	Norway	53.94	-0.3%
102nd	American Samoa	53.99	-0.5%
103rd	Nepal	54.02	-0.3%
104th	Lao PDR	54.07	-1.1%
105th	Paraguay	54.20	0.0%
106th	New Zealand	54.26	0.4%
107th	Gibraltar	54.47	-0.4%
108th	Honduras	54.53	-1.1%
109th	Hungary	54.57	0.6%
110th	Netherlands	54.63	0.3%
111th	Australia	54.83	0.5%
112th	Jordan	55.16	-1.9%
113th	Moldova	55.30	1.5%
114th	Romania	55.35	0.4%
115th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	55.50	-1.2%
116th	Montenegro	55.76	0.8%
117th	Guyana	55.77	0.8%
118th	Turkmenistan	56.11	0.9%
119th	Cambodia	56.43	-0.6%
120th	Haiti	56.72	-1.2%
121st	Czechia	56.79	-1.1%
122nd	Puerto Rico (US)	56.86	0.3%
123rd	Botswana	56.86	-0.2%
124th	Slovenia	56.89	1.2%
125th	European Union	56.90	0.7%
126th	Georgia	57.13	0.3%
127th	Italy	57.14	0.2%
128th	Bulgaria	57.16	0.6%
129th	Belgium	57.32	0.6%
130th	Denmark	57.40	0.1%
131st	Lebanon	57.58	-0.7%
132nd	Uzbekistan	57.64	2.0%
133rd	United Kingdom	57.85	0.4%
134th	Serbia	57.95	1.1%
135th	Germany	57.99	1.5%
136th	Guatemala	58.41	-2.0%
137th	Estonia	58.43	0.1%
138th	Croatia	58.61	0.7%
139th	Portugal	58.74	1.4%
140th	Algeria	58.77	-0.1%
141st	Latvia	58.79	0.4%
142nd	Greece	58.91	0.0%
143rd	Papua New Guinea	59.12	-0.9%
144th	Isle of Man	59.33	0.7%
145th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	59.76	-1.2%
146th	Mongolia	60.00	0.0%
147th	Sweden	60.74	-0.2%
148th	Eswatini	60.81	-0.6%
149th	Kazakhstan	60.89	1.0%
150th	Micronesia, Federated States of	60.93	0.1%
151st	Faroe Islands	60.99	-1.5%
152nd	Kyrgyz Republic	61.55	-0.1%
153rd	Guam	61.65	2.2%
154th	St. Martin (French part)	62.17	4.5%
155th	Finland	62.64	0.3%
156th	France	62.69	0.5%
157th	Lesotho	63.27	-1.4%
158th	Virgin Islands (US)	63.30	1.9%
159th	Tuvalu	63.60	4.3%
160th	Kiribati	64.06	-0.2%
161st	Marshall Islands	64.17	1.5%
162nd	Timor-Leste	65.46	-2.8%
163rd	Ghana	66.14	-1.2%
164th	Israel	66.75	-0.3%
165th	Tajikistan	67.10	0.4%
166th	Kenya	67.67	-2.4%
167th	Iraq	68.03	-2.0%
168th	Gabon	68.65	-0.3%
169th	Nauru	69.09	0.4%
170th	Namibia	69.10	-0.5%
171st	Solomon Islands	69.46	-1.6%
172nd	Equatorial Guinea	69.80	-0.6%
173rd	Japan	70.10	-0.2%
174th	Pakistan	70.17	-0.8%
175th	Rwanda	71.10	-1.3%
176th	Sierra Leone	71.64	-1.7%
177th	Comoros	72.04	-1.2%
178th	São Tomé and Principe	72.85	-2.0%
179th	West Bank and Gaza	72.93	-0.9%
180th	Senegal	73.07	-2.0%
181st	Tonga	73.09	0.3%
182nd	Guinea-Bissau	73.57	-1.7%
183rd	South Sudan	74.72	-3.7%
184th	Eritrea	74.91	-2.0%
185th	Vanuatu	74.92	-0.6%
186th	Madagascar	75.15	-0.9%
187th	Togo	75.58	-1.2%
188th	Liberia	76.29	-1.9%
189th	Gambia, The	77.65	-1.5%
190th	Yemen, Republic of	77.73	-0.3%
191st	Congo, Republic of	77.93	-1.2%
192nd	Côte d'Ivoire	78.08	-1.4%
193rd	Zambia	78.11	-1.8%
194th	Sudan	78.13	-0.7%
195th	Malawi	78.28	-2.6%
196th	Samoa	79.96	0.4%
197th	Nigeria	80.25	-1.8%
198th	Cameroon	80.30	-1.2%
199th	Guinea	80.78	-1.3%
200th	Benin	81.57	-1.0%
201st	Zimbabwe	81.63	-1.1%
202nd	Burkina Faso	81.89	-2.2%
203rd	Afghanistan	83.84	-1.3%
204th	Tanzania	84.39	-0.7%
205th	Uganda	85.49	-1.3%
206th	Mauritania	86.05	-1.2%
207th	Angola	90.06	-0.6%
208th	Mozambique	90.55	-0.8%
209th	Burundi	91.85	-2.4%
210th	Chad	95.36	-2.6%
211th	Mali	95.56	-1.2%
212th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	96.68	-0.1%
213th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	97.02	-0.5%
214th	Monaco	98.16	-1.7%
215th	Niger	98.16	-1.4%
216th	Central African Republic	105.18	-0.4%

FAQ

What was Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio in 2023?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio in 2023 was 44.95. This ranked 40th globally.

How did Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio change in 2023?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio increased by 1.9% in 2023 compared to 2022.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 2023?▾

Central African Republic had the highest dependency ratio in 2023 at 105.18.

What is the dependency ratio of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2023?▾

The dependency ratio of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2023 was 44.95. This ranked 40th globally.

How does 2023 compare to 2022 for Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio went from 44.13 in 2022 to 44.95 in 2023, a 1.9% increase.

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