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Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of - Dependency Ratio 2024

Name: Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of Dependency Ratio 2024
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

45.66 +0.71 from 2023 Global rank: 41st

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio was 45.66 in 2024, increased +0.71 from 44.95 in 2023. This was the 41st highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2024▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 2024
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Qatar	20.12	0.1%
2nd	United Arab Emirates	21.77	-1.1%
3rd	Kuwait	27.10	-1.4%
4th	Bahrain	29.15	-0.3%
5th	British Virgin Islands	31.78	-1.2%
6th	Maldives	31.98	-0.9%
7th	Cayman Islands	33.66	1.9%
8th	Singapore	33.94	2.5%
9th	Saudi Arabia	36.55	-0.7%
10th	Jamaica	36.82	-0.4%
11th	St. Lucia	37.28	-0.1%
12th	Turks and Caicos Islands	37.60	1.0%
13th	Oman	37.66	-2.6%
14th	Bhutan	37.75	-2.1%
15th	Brunei Darussalam	38.30	0.8%
16th	Andorra	38.56	0.8%
17th	Macao SAR, China	39.23	3.1%
18th	Mauritius	39.54	1.3%
19th	Seychelles	39.84	0.1%
20th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	41.00	0.3%
21st	St. Kitts and Nevis	41.67	1.9%
22nd	Malaysia	41.89	-1.0%
23rd	Antigua and Barbuda	42.01	0.6%
24th	Palau	42.01	0.9%
25th	Bahamas, The	42.22	-0.7%
26th	Korea	42.53	2.6%
27th	Colombia	42.96	0.4%
28th	Thailand	43.09	1.5%
29th	Trinidad and Tobago	43.14	1.2%
30th	Azerbaijan	43.61	0.1%
31st	French Polynesia	43.73	-0.2%
32nd	China	44.24	-1.1%
33rd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	44.26	-0.4%
34th	Cyprus	44.28	1.5%
35th	Brazil	44.33	0.7%
36th	Kosovo	44.48	-0.7%
37th	Dominica	44.57	-0.1%
38th	Costa Rica	44.98	-0.1%
39th	Chile	45.14	0.1%
40th	Luxembourg	45.46	1.5%
41st	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	45.66	1.6%
42nd	Belize	46.20	-1.1%
43rd	Myanmar	46.21	0.0%
44th	Greenland	46.22	3.3%
45th	Grenada	46.37	-0.2%
46th	Curaçao	46.43	0.9%
47th	Türkiye	46.48	-0.5%
48th	Northern Mariana Islands	46.53	2.0%
49th	India	46.56	-1.0%
50th	Cuba	46.76	0.7%
51st	Indonesia	46.81	-0.4%
52nd	Viet Nam	47.65	0.2%
53rd	Cabo Verde	47.94	-2.4%
54th	Libya	48.00	-1.8%
55th	South Africa	48.31	-0.1%
56th	New Caledonia	48.66	0.5%
57th	Mexico	48.72	-0.7%
58th	Ecuador	48.81	-1.3%
59th	Ukraine	48.92	0.0%
60th	Armenia	49.12	0.8%
61st	El Salvador	49.15	-1.1%
62nd	Hong Kong SAR, China	49.64	3.8%
63rd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	49.66	-0.1%
64th	Peru	49.70	-0.7%
65th	Malta	49.80	1.3%
66th	Philippines	50.06	-2.3%
67th	Iceland	50.17	0.0%
68th	Suriname	50.46	-0.1%
69th	Tunisia	50.53	-0.1%
70th	Fiji	50.56	-0.7%
71st	Albania	50.97	1.9%
72nd	Morocco	50.99	-0.4%
73rd	Barbados	51.04	0.9%
74th	Aruba	51.29	1.6%
75th	Syrian Arab Republic	51.30	-4.8%
76th	Belarus	51.43	1.0%
77th	Argentina	51.56	-1.6%
78th	Djibouti	51.56	-1.3%
79th	Spain	51.67	0.7%
80th	Sri Lanka	51.82	0.2%
81st	Channel Islands	52.05	0.8%
82nd	Panama	52.09	-0.4%
83rd	Nicaragua	52.19	-1.3%
84th	Slovak Republic	52.20	1.5%
85th	Uruguay	52.30	-0.7%
86th	Ireland	52.55	-0.5%
87th	Russian Federation	52.57	1.5%
88th	Dominican Republic	52.57	-0.2%
89th	Bangladesh	52.64	-0.9%
90th	San Marino	53.06	1.3%
91st	Austria	53.46	1.6%
92nd	North Macedonia	53.49	1.2%
93rd	Lao PDR	53.53	-1.0%
94th	Lithuania	53.54	0.6%
95th	Canada	53.64	1.1%
96th	Nepal	53.69	-0.6%
97th	Poland	53.73	1.3%
98th	Switzerland	53.77	1.5%
99th	Norway	53.78	-0.3%
100th	Liechtenstein	53.82	2.1%
101st	Honduras	53.94	-1.1%
102nd	American Samoa	53.97	0.0%
103rd	Paraguay	54.14	-0.1%
104th	Jordan	54.30	-1.5%
105th	United States	54.45	1.0%
106th	Gibraltar	54.47	0.0%
107th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	54.48	1.8%
108th	New Zealand	54.59	0.6%
109th	Bermuda	54.68	2.5%
110th	Hungary	54.79	0.4%
111th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	54.87	-1.1%
112th	Netherlands	55.09	0.9%
113th	Australia	55.21	0.7%
114th	Romania	55.51	0.3%
115th	Haiti	55.99	-1.3%
116th	Guyana	56.00	0.4%
117th	Cambodia	56.14	-0.5%
118th	Montenegro	56.15	0.7%
119th	Moldova	56.25	1.7%
120th	Turkmenistan	56.34	0.4%
121st	Botswana	56.66	-0.4%
122nd	Czechia	56.84	0.1%
123rd	Lebanon	57.05	-0.9%
124th	Puerto Rico (US)	57.10	0.4%
125th	Guatemala	57.30	-1.9%
126th	Georgia	57.32	0.3%
127th	European Union	57.38	0.8%
128th	Slovenia	57.45	1.0%
129th	Bulgaria	57.49	0.6%
130th	Italy	57.52	0.7%
131st	Belgium	57.61	0.5%
132nd	Denmark	57.64	0.4%
133rd	United Kingdom	57.94	0.2%
134th	Algeria	58.51	-0.4%
135th	Estonia	58.57	0.2%
136th	Papua New Guinea	58.59	-0.9%
137th	Uzbekistan	58.65	1.7%
138th	Serbia	58.72	1.3%
139th	Germany	59.00	1.7%
140th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	59.01	-1.2%
141st	Croatia	59.01	0.7%
142nd	Latvia	59.11	0.5%
143rd	Greece	59.13	0.4%
144th	Mongolia	59.57	-0.7%
145th	Portugal	59.57	1.4%
146th	Isle of Man	59.68	0.6%
147th	Eswatini	60.29	-0.9%
148th	Faroe Islands	60.52	-0.8%
149th	Sweden	60.60	-0.2%
150th	Micronesia, Federated States of	60.76	-0.3%
151st	Kyrgyz Republic	61.35	-0.3%
152nd	Kazakhstan	61.36	0.8%
153rd	Lesotho	62.27	-1.6%
154th	Finland	62.68	0.1%
155th	Guam	62.83	1.9%
156th	France	63.00	0.5%
157th	Kiribati	63.75	-0.5%
158th	Timor-Leste	63.76	-2.6%
159th	Marshall Islands	64.24	0.1%
160th	Virgin Islands (US)	64.44	1.8%
161st	Ghana	65.36	-1.2%
162nd	Tuvalu	65.60	3.1%
163rd	St. Martin (French part)	65.95	6.1%
164th	Kenya	66.12	-2.3%
165th	Israel	66.56	-0.3%
166th	Iraq	66.65	-2.0%
167th	Tajikistan	66.98	-0.2%
168th	Gabon	68.26	-0.6%
169th	Solomon Islands	68.38	-1.6%
170th	Nauru	68.43	-0.9%
171st	Namibia	68.50	-0.9%
172nd	Pakistan	69.39	-1.1%
173rd	Equatorial Guinea	69.41	-0.6%
174th	Japan	70.12	0.0%
175th	Rwanda	70.32	-1.1%
176th	Sierra Leone	70.45	-1.7%
177th	Comoros	71.21	-1.1%
178th	São Tomé and Principe	71.61	-1.7%
179th	Senegal	71.82	-1.7%
180th	West Bank and Gaza	72.07	-1.2%
181st	South Sudan	72.14	-3.4%
182nd	Guinea-Bissau	72.35	-1.7%
183rd	Tonga	72.77	-0.4%
184th	Eritrea	73.43	-2.0%
185th	Vanuatu	74.25	-0.9%
186th	Madagascar	74.40	-1.0%
187th	Togo	74.64	-1.2%
188th	Liberia	74.93	-1.8%
189th	Malawi	76.34	-2.5%
190th	Gambia, The	76.45	-1.5%
191st	Zambia	76.69	-1.8%
192nd	Congo, Republic of	76.78	-1.5%
193rd	Côte d'Ivoire	76.93	-1.5%
194th	Yemen, Republic of	77.47	-0.3%
195th	Sudan	77.85	-0.4%
196th	Nigeria	78.77	-1.8%
197th	Cameroon	79.33	-1.2%
198th	Samoa	79.68	-0.4%
199th	Guinea	79.71	-1.3%
200th	Burkina Faso	80.03	-2.3%
201st	Zimbabwe	80.10	-1.9%
202nd	Benin	80.74	-1.0%
203rd	Afghanistan	82.78	-1.3%
204th	Tanzania	83.76	-0.7%
205th	Uganda	84.27	-1.4%
206th	Mauritania	84.98	-1.2%
207th	Angola	89.41	-0.7%
208th	Burundi	89.50	-2.6%
209th	Mozambique	89.51	-1.2%
210th	Chad	92.92	-2.6%
211th	Mali	94.27	-1.3%
212th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	96.50	-0.2%
213th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	96.79	-0.2%
214th	Niger	96.83	-1.4%
215th	Monaco	98.57	0.4%
216th	Central African Republic	104.73	-0.4%

FAQ

What was Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio in 2024?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio in 2024 was 45.66. This ranked 41st globally.

How did Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio change in 2024?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio increased by 1.6% in 2024 compared to 2023.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 2024?▾

Central African Republic had the highest dependency ratio in 2024 at 104.73.

What is the dependency ratio of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2024?▾

The dependency ratio of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2024 was 45.66. This ranked 41st globally.

How does 2024 compare to 2023 for Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's dependency ratio went from 44.95 in 2023 to 45.66 in 2024, a 1.6% increase.

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