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Lesotho - Dependency Ratio 2012

Name: Lesotho Dependency Ratio 2012
Creator: World Bank
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

68.22 −0.27 from 2011 Global rank: 163rd

Lesotho's dependency ratio was 68.22 in 2012, decreased +0.27 from 68.48 in 2011. This was the 163rd highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2012▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 2012
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Qatar	18.38	3.4%
2nd	United Arab Emirates	22.35	0.1%
3rd	Macao SAR, China	24.56	1.7%
4th	Singapore	26.87	-0.3%
5th	Bahrain	28.49	-2.5%
6th	Cayman Islands	31.15	0.6%
7th	Kuwait	31.60	-1.8%
8th	Oman	34.01	-13.0%
9th	Hong Kong SAR, China	34.25	1.0%
10th	Trinidad and Tobago	36.61	0.9%
11th	Korea	36.78	-1.3%
12th	Palau	36.85	-0.2%
13th	British Virgin Islands	37.20	-2.4%
14th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	37.40	-0.7%
15th	China	37.72	0.9%
16th	Mauritius	38.51	-0.9%
17th	Moldova	38.54	-0.4%
18th	Azerbaijan	38.81	0.3%
19th	Cyprus	39.23	0.0%
20th	Andorra	39.27	0.1%
21st	Slovak Republic	39.46	1.2%
22nd	Turks and Caicos Islands	39.54	-2.7%
23rd	Thailand	39.62	-0.7%
24th	Russian Federation	39.71	2.3%
25th	Brunei Darussalam	39.80	-1.0%
26th	Maldives	39.93	-3.3%
27th	Saudi Arabia	40.17	-3.0%
28th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	40.27	0.4%
29th	Greenland	40.78	-0.8%
30th	Ukraine	40.83	0.8%
31st	Belarus	40.86	1.3%
32nd	Seychelles	40.89	-1.5%
33rd	Poland	41.18	1.4%
34th	Northern Mariana Islands	41.95	0.0%
35th	St. Kitts and Nevis	42.06	-2.4%
36th	Aruba	42.86	-0.4%
37th	Viet Nam	43.06	-0.9%
38th	Antigua and Barbuda	43.08	-1.8%
39th	Armenia	43.11	0.6%
40th	Liechtenstein	43.59	1.2%
41st	St. Lucia	43.64	-2.9%
42nd	Cuba	44.07	0.6%
43rd	Tunisia	44.57	0.5%
44th	North Macedonia	44.63	0.0%
45th	Brazil	44.64	-1.1%
46th	Bermuda	44.73	1.8%
47th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	44.92	0.6%
48th	Luxembourg	44.99	-1.3%
49th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	45.22	-0.7%
50th	Canada	45.24	1.4%
51st	Slovenia	45.37	2.1%
52nd	Chile	45.39	-0.6%
53rd	Malta	45.45	2.5%
54th	Czechia	45.47	3.7%
55th	Hungary	45.92	0.9%
56th	Jamaica	46.20	-3.0%
57th	Costa Rica	46.53	-0.9%
58th	Albania	46.63	-1.6%
59th	Channel Islands	46.63	2.1%
60th	French Polynesia	46.79	-0.5%
61st	Serbia	46.85	0.7%
62nd	Mongolia	46.89	0.5%
63rd	Barbados	47.09	0.1%
64th	Romania	47.09	0.9%
65th	Bahamas, The	47.09	-1.0%
66th	Lebanon	47.21	-0.5%
67th	Curaçao	47.49	-0.3%
68th	Malaysia	47.52	-1.3%
69th	Switzerland	47.66	0.7%
70th	Montenegro	47.71	-0.1%
71st	Georgia	47.86	0.5%
72nd	Austria	48.02	0.3%
73rd	Türkiye	48.04	-1.4%
74th	Bulgaria	48.17	2.2%
75th	Spain	48.18	1.6%
76th	Kazakhstan	48.27	2.1%
77th	Colombia	48.27	-1.6%
78th	Algeria	48.50	1.0%
79th	Myanmar	48.90	-1.4%
80th	San Marino	48.92	0.8%
81st	United States	48.99	1.0%
82nd	Lithuania	49.07	0.4%
83rd	Uzbekistan	49.08	-1.6%
84th	Australia	49.33	1.1%
85th	Latvia	49.34	1.5%
86th	Grenada	49.48	-1.0%
87th	Sri Lanka	49.59	0.7%
88th	Croatia	49.60	0.3%
89th	New Caledonia	49.71	-0.5%
90th	St. Martin (French part)	49.93	1.5%
91st	Turkmenistan	49.99	-1.3%
92nd	Dominica	50.22	-2.6%
93rd	Estonia	50.27	2.0%
94th	Iceland	50.32	0.9%
95th	Indonesia	50.40	-0.7%
96th	Ireland	50.54	2.3%
97th	European Union	50.61	1.2%
98th	Bhutan	50.62	-1.9%
99th	Netherlands	50.65	2.0%
100th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	51.00	-0.8%
101st	Norway	51.44	0.4%
102nd	Germany	51.58	-0.3%
103rd	Kosovo	51.67	-2.0%
104th	Morocco	51.80	-0.5%
105th	Portugal	51.85	1.0%
106th	South Africa	51.87	-0.9%
107th	Guam	52.05	-0.1%
108th	New Zealand	52.24	1.2%
109th	Belgium	52.60	1.1%
110th	Gibraltar	52.73	1.1%
111th	Greece	52.81	1.8%
112th	United Kingdom	53.23	1.8%
113th	Puerto Rico (US)	53.59	-1.5%
114th	Finland	53.59	2.6%
115th	Italy	53.77	1.2%
116th	Fiji	53.82	-0.5%
117th	Isle of Man	54.05	2.3%
118th	Denmark	54.24	1.3%
119th	Kyrgyz Republic	54.44	1.9%
120th	Mexico	54.56	-1.1%
121st	Panama	54.58	-0.3%
122nd	Cabo Verde	54.68	-3.4%
123rd	Virgin Islands (US)	54.76	2.2%
124th	Dominican Republic	54.87	-1.0%
125th	India	55.06	-1.7%
126th	Suriname	55.53	-1.1%
127th	Sweden	55.68	2.0%
128th	Libya	55.99	4.4%
129th	Argentina	56.15	-0.2%
130th	Guyana	56.22	-1.5%
131st	France	56.29	1.8%
132nd	Uruguay	56.53	-0.7%
133rd	Peru	56.61	-0.6%
134th	Cambodia	57.60	-0.9%
135th	Ecuador	57.79	-1.2%
136th	Paraguay	57.81	-1.8%
137th	Faroe Islands	58.58	1.0%
138th	El Salvador	59.86	-2.7%
139th	Bangladesh	60.04	-1.7%
140th	Botswana	60.19	0.6%
141st	American Samoa	60.34	-2.0%
142nd	Japan	60.54	3.3%
143rd	Nicaragua	60.79	-1.6%
144th	Tuvalu	60.94	-0.4%
145th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	61.04	0.2%
146th	Belize	61.19	-3.1%
147th	Philippines	62.03	-1.4%
148th	Israel	62.55	1.5%
149th	Micronesia, Federated States of	62.69	-0.8%
150th	Jordan	63.00	-1.6%
151st	Lao PDR	63.56	-2.4%
152nd	Nauru	63.89	2.7%
153rd	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	64.56	-1.4%
154th	Djibouti	64.89	-1.4%
155th	Haiti	65.11	-1.4%
156th	Kiribati	65.72	-1.3%
157th	Tajikistan	65.74	-0.6%
158th	Nepal	65.88	-1.8%
159th	Papua New Guinea	65.96	-1.0%
160th	Honduras	66.56	-2.3%
161st	Syrian Arab Republic	66.92	2.3%
162nd	Namibia	67.03	-0.1%
163rd	Lesotho	68.22	-0.4%
164th	Gabon	69.76	-0.9%
165th	Eswatini	69.82	-1.2%
166th	Equatorial Guinea	71.16	-0.1%
167th	Vanuatu	71.18	0.5%
168th	Marshall Islands	71.21	-0.9%
169th	Guatemala	72.60	-2.2%
170th	Ghana	73.29	-0.4%
171st	Pakistan	74.74	-0.4%
172nd	Monaco	75.76	5.9%
173rd	Tonga	75.99	-0.3%
174th	Samoa	75.99	-0.5%
175th	Congo, Republic of	77.46	1.2%
176th	Iraq	78.41	-0.5%
177th	West Bank and Gaza	78.87	-1.3%
178th	Solomon Islands	78.90	-0.8%
179th	Togo	79.86	0.1%
180th	South Sudan	80.09	-1.0%
181st	Comoros	80.68	-2.2%
182nd	Rwanda	80.84	-0.9%
183rd	Côte d'Ivoire	82.20	-2.1%
184th	Kenya	83.01	-0.8%
185th	Yemen, Republic of	83.19	-1.6%
186th	São Tomé and Principe	83.67	-0.2%
187th	Liberia	83.89	-1.2%
188th	Guinea-Bissau	83.98	-0.7%
189th	Timor-Leste	84.39	-0.8%
190th	Eritrea	84.81	-0.6%
191st	Madagascar	84.89	-1.6%
192nd	Sierra Leone	85.36	-0.9%
193rd	Senegal	86.19	0.1%
194th	Cameroon	87.12	-0.3%
195th	Benin	87.66	-0.5%
196th	Gambia, The	87.78	-0.7%
197th	Zimbabwe	87.86	1.2%
198th	Sudan	89.18	-0.3%
199th	Nigeria	90.38	0.0%
200th	Guinea	90.78	-1.1%
201st	Zambia	91.25	-0.8%
202nd	Mauritania	91.66	1.0%
203rd	Angola	91.90	0.0%
204th	Burundi	92.16	1.3%
205th	Tanzania	92.23	-0.4%
206th	Burkina Faso	93.53	0.0%
207th	Mozambique	94.41	0.1%
208th	Central African Republic	95.32	2.5%
209th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	96.43	-0.1%
210th	Malawi	97.95	-0.8%
211th	Afghanistan	99.77	-1.7%
212th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	101.04	-1.7%
213th	Mali	101.52	1.1%
214th	Chad	103.42	-0.4%
215th	Uganda	104.02	-0.9%
216th	Niger	107.78	0.0%

FAQ

What was Lesotho's dependency ratio in 2012?▾

Lesotho's dependency ratio in 2012 was 68.22. This ranked 163rd globally.

How did Lesotho's dependency ratio change in 2012?▾

Lesotho's dependency ratio decreased by 0.4% in 2012 compared to 2011.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 2012?▾

Niger had the highest dependency ratio in 2012 at 107.78.

What is the dependency ratio of Lesotho in 2012?▾

The dependency ratio of Lesotho in 2012 was 68.22. This ranked 163rd globally.

How does 2012 compare to 2011 for Lesotho's dependency ratio?▾

Lesotho's dependency ratio went from 68.48 in 2011 to 68.22 in 2012, a 0.4% decrease.

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