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Lesotho - Dependency Ratio 1985

Name: Lesotho Dependency Ratio 1985
Creator: World Bank
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

88.44 +0.55 from 1984 Global rank: 156th

Lesotho's dependency ratio was 88.44 in 1985, increased +0.55 from 87.89 in 1984. This was the 156th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1985▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 1985
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Qatar	39.18	-2.4%
2nd	Andorra	39.31	-2.0%
3rd	Greenland	39.34	-1.7%
4th	Singapore	39.37	-0.2%
5th	Northern Mariana Islands	42.36	-8.6%
6th	Liechtenstein	42.82	-2.1%
7th	Serbia	42.85	-0.1%
8th	Bermuda	42.92	-0.4%
9th	Luxembourg	43.75	-1.0%
10th	Germany	43.97	-1.4%
11th	San Marino	44.03	-0.5%
12th	Hong Kong SAR, China	44.54	-0.5%
13th	St. Martin (French part)	44.90	-6.7%
14th	Channel Islands	45.24	-1.4%
15th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	45.80	-6.2%
16th	Croatia	45.84	0.1%
17th	Canada	46.05	-0.2%
18th	Netherlands	46.07	-2.0%
19th	Cayman Islands	46.30	-3.4%
20th	Switzerland	46.44	-1.0%
21st	Bosnia and Herzegovina	46.47	-1.2%
22nd	Macao SAR, China	46.62	-0.3%
23rd	United Arab Emirates	46.81	2.6%
24th	Finland	46.83	0.1%
25th	Japan	47.11	-1.0%
26th	Russian Federation	47.58	0.4%
27th	Slovenia	48.01	-1.0%
28th	Italy	48.09	-1.8%
29th	Austria	48.11	-1.5%
30th	Belgium	48.29	-0.7%
31st	Belarus	48.69	0.1%
32nd	Latvia	49.14	-0.4%
33rd	Bulgaria	49.20	0.2%
34th	Ukraine	49.31	0.1%
35th	Lithuania	49.64	-0.7%
36th	United States	49.77	-0.2%
37th	European Union	50.07	-1.0%
38th	Denmark	50.44	-0.9%
39th	Estonia	50.48	-0.8%
40th	Aruba	50.69	-1.7%
41st	Malta	51.05	0.8%
42nd	Australia	51.08	-1.1%
43rd	Montenegro	51.11	-1.0%
44th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	51.27	-4.1%
45th	Georgia	51.41	0.2%
46th	Hungary	51.55	0.0%
47th	Cuba	51.76	-3.8%
48th	France	51.89	-0.8%
49th	North Macedonia	52.30	-0.7%
50th	United Kingdom	52.38	-0.4%
51st	Romania	52.44	-2.0%
52nd	Korea	52.53	-3.8%
53rd	Gibraltar	52.98	0.1%
54th	Greece	53.24	-1.7%
55th	Curaçao	53.34	-1.1%
56th	Cyprus	53.37	0.3%
57th	New Zealand	53.67	-1.4%
58th	Poland	53.71	0.9%
59th	Moldova	53.74	1.3%
60th	Barbados	53.92	0.1%
61st	Monaco	53.97	0.5%
62nd	Spain	54.11	-1.7%
63rd	Armenia	54.21	0.2%
64th	Guam	54.27	-2.7%
65th	Czechia	54.42	-0.6%
66th	Sweden	54.79	0.3%
67th	Bahrain	55.22	-1.0%
68th	Portugal	55.34	-1.2%
69th	British Virgin Islands	55.47	-4.3%
70th	Norway	55.59	-0.9%
71st	Slovak Republic	55.91	0.4%
72nd	Bahamas, The	56.47	-2.7%
73rd	China	56.47	-3.8%
74th	Mauritius	56.49	-1.1%
75th	Iceland	57.10	-0.7%
76th	Chile	57.25	-1.1%
77th	Tuvalu	57.34	1.2%
78th	Faroe Islands	57.83	-0.9%
79th	Virgin Islands (US)	58.54	-1.6%
80th	Azerbaijan	58.89	-0.8%
81st	Uruguay	59.65	-0.2%
82nd	Antigua and Barbuda	59.87	0.4%
83rd	Thailand	60.43	-3.6%
84th	Puerto Rico (US)	61.26	-1.4%
85th	Kuwait	61.42	-1.5%
86th	Brunei Darussalam	62.43	-2.3%
87th	Isle of Man	62.73	-0.8%
88th	Trinidad and Tobago	63.46	0.4%
89th	Argentina	64.01	0.3%
90th	Kazakhstan	64.13	-0.5%
91st	Turks and Caicos Islands	64.33	-5.4%
92nd	Albania	64.77	-1.3%
93rd	New Caledonia	66.75	-2.9%
94th	Ireland	66.90	-1.2%
95th	Sri Lanka	67.24	-1.0%
96th	Costa Rica	67.87	-0.1%
97th	Palau	68.14	-2.2%
98th	Kosovo	69.04	-1.7%
99th	Brazil	69.34	-0.8%
100th	French Polynesia	69.69	-1.8%
101st	Seychelles	69.92	-1.2%
102nd	Nauru	70.14	2.9%
103rd	Colombia	70.44	-1.7%
104th	Israel	70.75	-0.3%
105th	Malaysia	71.23	-0.4%
106th	Suriname	71.35	-1.8%
107th	Lebanon	71.54	-1.1%
108th	Fiji	71.64	-0.2%
109th	Grenada	71.65	-3.0%
110th	Kyrgyz Republic	71.97	-0.5%
111th	American Samoa	72.92	-1.0%
112th	Timor-Leste	72.98	1.7%
113th	Indonesia	73.24	-1.8%
114th	Panama	73.49	-1.7%
115th	Myanmar	73.55	-1.0%
116th	Türkiye	74.40	-1.7%
117th	Kiribati	74.58	-0.3%
118th	Dominica	75.24	-2.8%
119th	Guyana	75.46	-2.7%
120th	South Africa	75.97	-1.0%
121st	India	76.26	-0.4%
122nd	Tunisia	76.72	-1.1%
123rd	Uzbekistan	77.16	-0.4%
124th	St. Kitts and Nevis	78.55	-0.9%
125th	Dominican Republic	79.37	-1.4%
126th	Ecuador	79.37	-1.5%
127th	Turkmenistan	79.66	-0.1%
128th	Papua New Guinea	79.86	-0.1%
129th	Nepal	80.75	0.3%
130th	Equatorial Guinea	80.87	-1.9%
131st	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	81.08	-0.4%
132nd	Peru	81.27	-1.5%
133rd	Jamaica	81.37	-1.5%
134th	Paraguay	82.27	-0.2%
135th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	82.41	-0.1%
136th	Philippines	82.69	-0.9%
137th	Morocco	82.91	-1.4%
138th	El Salvador	83.01	-1.3%
139th	Viet Nam	83.14	-0.3%
140th	Saudi Arabia	83.69	-0.2%
141st	Haiti	83.78	0.2%
142nd	Cambodia	84.23	0.4%
143rd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	84.25	-1.9%
144th	Mexico	84.33	-2.2%
145th	Bhutan	84.37	0.2%
146th	Tonga	85.26	-1.1%
147th	Samoa	86.24	-2.3%
148th	Sierra Leone	86.99	0.4%
149th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	87.06	1.1%
150th	Angola	87.21	0.1%
151st	Mongolia	87.25	-1.3%
152nd	Tajikistan	87.39	-0.3%
153rd	Eritrea	87.45	-0.5%
154th	Central African Republic	87.56	0.1%
155th	Pakistan	88.15	0.9%
156th	Lesotho	88.44	0.6%
157th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	88.47	-0.2%
158th	Liberia	89.32	0.0%
159th	Guinea	89.34	0.3%
160th	Lao PDR	90.49	0.0%
161st	Gabon	90.91	0.8%
162nd	Djibouti	91.13	-0.6%
163rd	Algeria	91.70	-1.7%
164th	Ghana	91.72	0.1%
165th	Bangladesh	92.15	-0.6%
166th	Maldives	92.28	0.5%
167th	Libya	92.38	-2.5%
168th	St. Lucia	92.44	-0.7%
169th	Congo, Republic of	93.22	-0.5%
170th	Vanuatu	93.44	-0.3%
171st	Nigeria	94.70	0.4%
172nd	Mauritania	94.81	-0.3%
173rd	Sudan	94.86	0.0%
174th	Guatemala	94.87	0.1%
175th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	95.32	0.7%
176th	São Tomé and Principe	95.70	0.2%
177th	Togo	95.73	-0.4%
178th	Belize	95.88	0.5%
179th	Mozambique	96.14	0.0%
180th	Mali	96.20	1.3%
181st	South Sudan	96.30	0.6%
182nd	Niger	96.38	0.2%
183rd	Botswana	96.76	-0.1%
184th	Malawi	96.94	0.3%
185th	Afghanistan	97.30	0.5%
186th	Burkina Faso	97.44	0.9%
187th	Gambia, The	97.67	0.3%
188th	Cameroon	98.51	0.3%
189th	Oman	98.86	-0.9%
190th	Benin	99.02	0.1%
191st	Nicaragua	99.16	-0.1%
192nd	Burundi	99.31	1.8%
193rd	Madagascar	99.56	-0.7%
194th	Micronesia, Federated States of	100.01	-0.8%
195th	Honduras	100.18	-0.5%
196th	Senegal	100.63	0.4%
197th	Namibia	100.86	-1.7%
198th	Iraq	101.30	-1.0%
199th	Côte d'Ivoire	101.52	0.4%
200th	Tanzania	101.72	-0.5%
201st	Jordan	102.40	-1.4%
202nd	Rwanda	102.49	1.0%
203rd	Syrian Arab Republic	103.17	-0.8%
204th	Solomon Islands	103.41	-0.7%
205th	Chad	103.75	2.9%
206th	Guinea-Bissau	104.11	0.5%
207th	Comoros	104.19	-0.1%
208th	Uganda	104.49	-0.1%
209th	Zimbabwe	104.92	-0.5%
210th	Cabo Verde	105.33	-1.1%
211th	Zambia	108.18	-0.5%
212th	Eswatini	109.64	0.1%
213th	Kenya	110.28	-0.9%
214th	Yemen, Republic of	112.67	1.1%
215th	Marshall Islands	115.58	0.3%

FAQ

What was Lesotho's dependency ratio in 1985?▾

Lesotho's dependency ratio in 1985 was 88.44. This ranked 156th globally.

How did Lesotho's dependency ratio change in 1985?▾

Lesotho's dependency ratio increased by 0.6% in 1985 compared to 1984.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 1985?▾

Marshall Islands had the highest dependency ratio in 1985 at 115.58.

What is the dependency ratio of Lesotho in 1985?▾

The dependency ratio of Lesotho in 1985 was 88.44. This ranked 156th globally.

How does 1985 compare to 1984 for Lesotho's dependency ratio?▾

Lesotho's dependency ratio went from 87.89 in 1984 to 88.44 in 1985, a 0.6% increase.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

Lesotho matched the Currency Crisis Pattern pattern in 1985. Historically: 128 occurrences, 35 successful (27%). Outcome 24 months later: 11.8%. View full analysis →

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