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Korea - Dependency Ratio 2013

Name: Korea Dependency Ratio 2013
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

36.53 −0.25 from 2012 Global rank: 11th

Korea's dependency ratio was 36.53 in 2013, decreased +0.25 from 36.78 in 2012. This was the 11th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2013▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 2013
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Qatar	18.67	1.6%
2nd	United Arab Emirates	22.42	0.3%
3rd	Macao SAR, China	25.51	3.9%
4th	Singapore	27.02	0.5%
5th	Bahrain	28.56	0.2%
6th	Cayman Islands	31.22	0.2%
7th	Kuwait	31.69	0.3%
8th	Oman	32.49	-4.5%
9th	Hong Kong SAR, China	34.96	2.1%
10th	British Virgin Islands	36.49	-1.9%
11th	Korea	36.53	-0.7%
12th	Trinidad and Tobago	37.04	1.2%
13th	Palau	37.25	1.1%
14th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	37.28	-0.3%
15th	China	38.24	1.4%
16th	Mauritius	38.44	-0.2%
17th	Turks and Caicos Islands	38.51	-2.6%
18th	Maldives	38.94	-2.5%
19th	Moldova	38.99	1.2%
20th	Saudi Arabia	39.14	-2.6%
21st	Brunei Darussalam	39.32	-1.2%
22nd	Cyprus	39.34	0.3%
23rd	Andorra	39.46	0.5%
24th	Thailand	39.49	-0.3%
25th	Azerbaijan	39.55	1.9%
26th	Slovak Republic	40.11	1.7%
27th	Seychelles	40.45	-1.1%
28th	Greenland	40.57	-0.5%
29th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	40.61	0.9%
30th	Russian Federation	40.78	2.7%
31st	St. Kitts and Nevis	41.07	-2.3%
32nd	Ukraine	41.32	1.2%
33rd	Belarus	41.69	2.0%
34th	Poland	41.92	1.8%
35th	Northern Mariana Islands	42.03	0.2%
36th	Antigua and Barbuda	42.37	-1.6%
37th	St. Lucia	42.54	-2.5%
38th	Aruba	43.04	0.4%
39th	Viet Nam	43.07	0.0%
40th	Armenia	43.60	1.1%
41st	Brazil	44.18	-1.0%
42nd	Liechtenstein	44.21	1.4%
43rd	Cuba	44.35	0.6%
44th	Luxembourg	44.80	-0.4%
45th	Jamaica	44.85	-2.9%
46th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	44.92	-0.7%
47th	North Macedonia	45.01	0.9%
48th	Tunisia	45.06	1.1%
49th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	45.14	0.5%
50th	Chile	45.26	-0.3%
51st	Bermuda	45.26	1.2%
52nd	Canada	45.99	1.6%
53rd	Costa Rica	46.15	-0.8%
54th	Albania	46.23	-0.9%
55th	Slovenia	46.45	2.4%
56th	French Polynesia	46.55	-0.5%
57th	Hungary	46.55	1.4%
58th	Bahamas, The	46.68	-0.9%
59th	Malta	46.70	2.7%
60th	Malaysia	46.96	-1.2%
61st	Czechia	47.08	3.5%
62nd	Lebanon	47.09	-0.2%
63rd	Barbados	47.15	0.1%
64th	Türkiye	47.36	-1.4%
65th	Romania	47.40	0.7%
66th	Colombia	47.50	-1.6%
67th	Channel Islands	47.51	1.9%
68th	Mongolia	47.59	1.5%
69th	Serbia	47.62	1.6%
70th	Curaçao	47.76	0.6%
71st	Montenegro	47.94	0.5%
72nd	Switzerland	48.00	0.7%
73rd	Myanmar	48.24	-1.4%
74th	Austria	48.31	0.6%
75th	Dominica	48.39	-3.6%
76th	Georgia	48.40	1.1%
77th	Uzbekistan	48.73	-0.7%
78th	Grenada	49.02	-0.9%
79th	Spain	49.08	1.9%
80th	Lithuania	49.27	0.4%
81st	Bulgaria	49.31	2.4%
82nd	Algeria	49.43	1.9%
83rd	San Marino	49.46	1.1%
84th	United States	49.50	1.0%
85th	Kazakhstan	49.53	2.6%
86th	New Caledonia	49.55	-0.3%
87th	Turkmenistan	49.65	-0.7%
88th	Bhutan	49.84	-1.6%
89th	Croatia	49.89	0.6%
90th	Australia	49.92	1.2%
91st	Sri Lanka	49.97	0.8%
92nd	Indonesia	50.04	-0.7%
93rd	Latvia	50.38	2.1%
94th	St. Martin (French part)	50.41	1.0%
95th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	50.49	-1.0%
96th	Iceland	50.74	0.8%
97th	Kosovo	50.82	-1.6%
98th	European Union	51.26	1.3%
99th	Estonia	51.37	2.2%
100th	Ireland	51.40	1.7%
101st	Netherlands	51.43	1.5%
102nd	South Africa	51.46	-0.8%
103rd	Morocco	51.53	-0.5%
104th	Germany	51.62	0.1%
105th	Norway	51.67	0.4%
106th	Guam	52.15	0.2%
107th	Portugal	52.45	1.2%
108th	New Zealand	52.70	0.9%
109th	Puerto Rico (US)	53.06	-1.0%
110th	Belgium	53.16	1.1%
111th	Cabo Verde	53.17	-2.8%
112th	Gibraltar	53.42	1.3%
113th	Fiji	53.65	-0.3%
114th	Greece	53.73	1.7%
115th	Mexico	54.03	-1.0%
116th	India	54.14	-1.7%
117th	United Kingdom	54.15	1.7%
118th	Panama	54.41	-0.3%
119th	Italy	54.44	1.2%
120th	Dominican Republic	54.48	-0.7%
121st	Denmark	54.76	1.0%
122nd	Suriname	54.84	-1.2%
123rd	Finland	55.03	2.7%
124th	Isle of Man	55.22	2.2%
125th	Libya	55.51	-0.8%
126th	Kyrgyz Republic	55.67	2.3%
127th	Guyana	55.73	-0.9%
128th	Virgin Islands (US)	55.99	2.2%
129th	Argentina	56.05	-0.2%
130th	Uruguay	56.19	-0.6%
131st	Peru	56.27	-0.6%
132nd	Sweden	56.84	2.1%
133rd	Paraguay	56.89	-1.6%
134th	Ecuador	57.06	-1.3%
135th	France	57.17	1.6%
136th	Cambodia	57.39	-0.4%
137th	El Salvador	58.28	-2.6%
138th	Bangladesh	58.86	-2.0%
139th	Belize	59.37	-3.0%
140th	Faroe Islands	59.38	1.4%
141st	American Samoa	59.58	-1.3%
142nd	Nicaragua	59.89	-1.5%
143rd	Tuvalu	60.65	-0.5%
144th	Botswana	60.74	0.9%
145th	Philippines	61.18	-1.4%
146th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	61.26	0.4%
147th	Micronesia, Federated States of	62.08	-1.0%
148th	Lao PDR	62.17	-2.2%
149th	Jordan	62.31	-1.1%
150th	Japan	62.61	3.4%
151st	Israel	63.35	1.3%
152nd	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	63.67	-1.4%
153rd	Djibouti	63.95	-1.5%
154th	Haiti	64.19	-1.4%
155th	Nauru	64.81	1.4%
156th	Kiribati	64.88	-1.3%
157th	Nepal	64.89	-1.5%
158th	Honduras	65.04	-2.3%
159th	Tajikistan	65.22	-0.8%
160th	Papua New Guinea	65.32	-1.0%
161st	Namibia	66.97	-0.1%
162nd	Lesotho	68.08	-0.2%
163rd	Eswatini	69.05	-1.1%
164th	Gabon	69.14	-0.9%
165th	Marshall Islands	70.07	-1.6%
166th	Guatemala	71.04	-2.1%
167th	Equatorial Guinea	71.10	-0.1%
168th	Syrian Arab Republic	71.70	7.1%
169th	Vanuatu	71.75	0.8%
170th	Ghana	73.04	-0.3%
171st	Pakistan	74.62	-0.2%
172nd	Samoa	75.43	-0.7%
173rd	Tonga	75.66	-0.4%
174th	West Bank and Gaza	77.94	-1.2%
175th	Iraq	77.96	-0.6%
176th	Solomon Islands	78.25	-0.8%
177th	Congo, Republic of	78.61	1.5%
178th	Comoros	79.58	-1.4%
179th	Monaco	79.69	5.2%
180th	Togo	79.85	0.0%
181st	South Sudan	79.94	-0.2%
182nd	Rwanda	80.16	-0.8%
183rd	Côte d'Ivoire	80.76	-1.8%
184th	Yemen, Republic of	82.09	-1.3%
185th	Kenya	82.13	-1.1%
186th	Timor-Leste	83.19	-1.4%
187th	Guinea-Bissau	83.37	-0.7%
188th	Madagascar	83.45	-1.7%
189th	São Tomé and Principe	83.83	0.2%
190th	Liberia	84.14	0.3%
191st	Sierra Leone	84.35	-1.2%
192nd	Eritrea	84.46	-0.4%
193rd	Senegal	86.08	-0.1%
194th	Cameroon	86.74	-0.4%
195th	Gambia, The	87.17	-0.7%
196th	Benin	87.34	-0.4%
197th	Sudan	88.62	-0.6%
198th	Zimbabwe	88.64	0.9%
199th	Guinea	89.84	-1.0%
200th	Nigeria	90.30	-0.1%
201st	Zambia	90.42	-0.9%
202nd	Tanzania	91.75	-0.5%
203rd	Angola	91.95	0.1%
204th	Mauritania	92.03	0.4%
205th	Burkina Faso	93.38	-0.2%
206th	Burundi	93.38	1.3%
207th	Mozambique	94.39	0.0%
208th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	96.45	0.0%
209th	Malawi	96.91	-1.1%
210th	Central African Republic	97.96	2.8%
211th	Afghanistan	98.06	-1.7%
212th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	100.55	-0.5%
213th	Mali	102.37	0.8%
214th	Chad	102.90	-0.5%
215th	Uganda	102.96	-1.0%
216th	Niger	107.59	-0.2%

FAQ

What was Korea's dependency ratio in 2013?▾

Korea's dependency ratio in 2013 was 36.53. This ranked 11th globally.

How did Korea's dependency ratio change in 2013?▾

Korea's dependency ratio decreased by 0.7% in 2013 compared to 2012.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 2013?▾

Niger had the highest dependency ratio in 2013 at 107.59.

What is the dependency ratio of Korea in 2013?▾

The dependency ratio of Korea in 2013 was 36.53. This ranked 11th globally.

How does 2013 compare to 2012 for Korea's dependency ratio?▾

Korea's dependency ratio went from 36.78 in 2012 to 36.53 in 2013, a 0.7% decrease.

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