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Puerto Rico (US) - Dependency Ratio 2019

Name: Puerto Rico (US) Dependency Ratio 2019
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

55.56 +0.06 from 2018 Global rank: 114th

Puerto Rico (US)'s dependency ratio was 55.56 in 2019, increased +0.06 from 55.50 in 2018. This was the 114th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2019▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 2019
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Qatar	18.66	4.9%
2nd	United Arab Emirates	22.22	-0.2%
3rd	Bahrain	30.05	2.8%
4th	Singapore	30.19	2.1%
5th	Cayman Islands	31.46	0.2%
6th	Kuwait	32.24	0.3%
7th	Macao SAR, China	32.86	5.3%
8th	Maldives	34.23	-2.1%
9th	British Virgin Islands	34.35	-1.7%
10th	Oman	36.23	6.0%
11th	Turks and Caicos Islands	36.44	0.0%
12th	Brunei Darussalam	37.43	-0.3%
13th	Korea	37.88	1.6%
14th	Andorra	38.01	-0.8%
15th	St. Lucia	38.13	-1.1%
16th	Mauritius	38.44	-0.1%
17th	Jamaica	39.04	-1.9%
18th	Seychelles	39.09	0.0%
19th	Saudi Arabia	39.28	0.8%
20th	St. Kitts and Nevis	39.42	0.9%
21st	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	39.87	1.5%
22nd	Palau	39.95	1.0%
23rd	Trinidad and Tobago	40.22	1.5%
24th	Antigua and Barbuda	40.61	-0.2%
25th	Thailand	40.61	0.8%
26th	Cyprus	41.46	1.1%
27th	Greenland	41.66	1.3%
28th	Hong Kong SAR, China	41.71	3.2%
29th	Northern Mariana Islands	42.09	-0.8%
30th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	42.95	-0.1%
31st	Bhutan	43.04	-3.6%
32nd	Azerbaijan	43.21	0.2%
33rd	China	43.39	2.0%
34th	Colombia	43.50	-1.3%
35th	Brazil	43.54	0.2%
36th	Luxembourg	43.86	0.1%
37th	French Polynesia	44.11	-1.3%
38th	Curaçao	44.16	-3.7%
39th	Bahamas, The	44.25	-1.0%
40th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	44.78	1.0%
41st	Malaysia	44.84	-0.9%
42nd	Chile	44.99	-0.2%
43rd	Dominica	45.26	-0.7%
44th	Costa Rica	45.42	0.2%
45th	Cuba	45.61	0.8%
46th	Türkiye	45.95	0.9%
47th	Kosovo	46.39	-1.1%
48th	Myanmar	46.40	-0.3%
49th	Viet Nam	46.61	1.0%
50th	Grenada	46.99	-0.3%
51st	Albania	47.04	1.1%
52nd	Slovak Republic	47.17	3.0%
53rd	Ukraine	47.25	1.5%
54th	Malta	47.35	-1.9%
55th	Belarus	47.81	2.0%
56th	Armenia	47.81	0.8%
57th	Aruba	48.10	2.1%
58th	Barbados	48.23	1.0%
59th	Indonesia	48.32	-0.5%
60th	New Caledonia	48.34	-0.2%
61st	Russian Federation	48.59	2.2%
62nd	Bermuda	48.92	1.9%
63rd	Liechtenstein	49.09	1.9%
64th	Poland	49.21	3.0%
65th	North Macedonia	49.26	2.6%
66th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	49.26	0.2%
67th	India	49.38	-1.3%
68th	Tunisia	49.38	1.6%
69th	Iceland	49.64	-0.6%
70th	San Marino	49.99	0.0%
71st	Bosnia and Herzegovina	49.99	2.4%
72nd	Austria	50.07	0.8%
73rd	South Africa	50.09	-1.2%
74th	Canada	50.41	1.4%
75th	Moldova	50.56	3.6%
76th	Switzerland	50.63	1.1%
77th	Channel Islands	50.77	0.6%
78th	Mexico	50.79	-0.9%
79th	Belize	51.04	-1.7%
80th	Spain	51.13	-0.2%
81st	Suriname	51.37	-0.7%
82nd	Morocco	51.40	0.3%
83rd	Sri Lanka	51.58	0.2%
84th	Hungary	51.87	2.2%
85th	Cabo Verde	51.95	0.8%
86th	Ecuador	52.13	-1.4%
87th	United States	52.16	0.9%
88th	El Salvador	52.21	-1.1%
89th	Fiji	52.54	-0.6%
90th	New Zealand	52.60	0.4%
91st	Libya	52.69	-1.6%
92nd	Peru	52.71	-1.6%
93rd	Dominican Republic	52.73	-0.2%
94th	Uzbekistan	52.77	2.1%
95th	Turkmenistan	52.90	1.9%
96th	Australia	52.92	0.9%
97th	Montenegro	52.95	2.1%
98th	Romania	53.02	2.0%
99th	Ireland	53.04	0.0%
100th	Panama	53.40	-0.4%
101st	Norway	53.45	0.5%
102nd	Netherlands	53.51	0.5%
103rd	Slovenia	53.75	1.8%
104th	Lithuania	53.77	0.8%
105th	Guyana	53.97	-0.6%
106th	Bangladesh	54.18	-0.3%
107th	Germany	54.54	1.2%
108th	Uruguay	54.56	-0.6%
109th	Serbia	54.60	2.5%
110th	Paraguay	54.63	-0.2%
111th	Georgia	55.06	2.0%
112th	European Union	55.06	1.1%
113th	Gibraltar	55.30	-0.4%
114th	Puerto Rico (US)	55.56	0.1%
115th	Croatia	55.56	2.1%
116th	Argentina	55.59	-0.5%
117th	Philippines	55.75	-1.3%
118th	Czechia	55.91	2.4%
119th	Bulgaria	55.92	1.7%
120th	Nicaragua	56.01	-1.1%
121st	Belgium	56.06	0.7%
122nd	Portugal	56.06	1.2%
123rd	Djibouti	56.20	-2.3%
124th	Guam	56.48	2.0%
125th	Lao PDR	56.49	-1.1%
126th	Italy	56.56	0.5%
127th	Denmark	56.60	0.7%
128th	Estonia	57.06	1.3%
129th	Latvia	57.10	1.4%
130th	St. Martin (French part)	57.11	11.1%
131st	American Samoa	57.13	-0.6%
132nd	Algeria	57.27	2.0%
133rd	Greece	57.29	0.7%
134th	Mongolia	57.43	3.6%
135th	United Kingdom	57.43	0.7%
136th	Kazakhstan	57.47	1.7%
137th	Honduras	57.55	-1.6%
138th	Cambodia	57.72	-0.1%
139th	Lebanon	57.95	4.0%
140th	Nepal	58.70	-2.5%
141st	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	58.71	-1.2%
142nd	Isle of Man	58.71	0.3%
143rd	Jordan	58.88	-1.3%
144th	Botswana	59.02	-1.3%
145th	Tuvalu	59.47	0.8%
146th	Haiti	59.50	-1.1%
147th	Virgin Islands (US)	59.90	0.5%
148th	Sweden	60.58	0.4%
149th	Kyrgyz Republic	60.73	1.3%
150th	Micronesia, Federated States of	60.88	0.1%
151st	Finland	61.13	1.1%
152nd	France	61.34	0.8%
153rd	Papua New Guinea	61.43	-1.1%
154th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	62.17	-0.5%
155th	Faroe Islands	62.24	0.1%
156th	Marshall Islands	63.03	-1.6%
157th	Guatemala	63.45	-1.7%
158th	Eswatini	63.70	-1.4%
159th	Kiribati	64.01	0.5%
160th	Tajikistan	65.31	0.7%
161st	Nauru	65.66	0.4%
162nd	Lesotho	66.26	-0.9%
163rd	Israel	66.69	0.4%
164th	Namibia	68.20	0.7%
165th	Syrian Arab Republic	68.35	-7.2%
166th	Gabon	68.83	0.3%
167th	Ghana	69.46	-1.1%
168th	Japan	69.48	0.7%
169th	Equatorial Guinea	70.73	-0.5%
170th	Pakistan	72.63	-0.6%
171st	Timor-Leste	72.82	-2.3%
172nd	Tonga	73.09	-0.5%
173rd	Iraq	73.10	-1.4%
174th	Solomon Islands	73.78	-1.1%
175th	Kenya	74.26	-1.9%
176th	Vanuatu	75.47	0.5%
177th	Rwanda	75.50	-1.4%
178th	Comoros	75.50	-1.3%
179th	West Bank and Gaza	75.52	-0.2%
180th	Sierra Leone	76.48	-1.6%
181st	Samoa	77.39	1.0%
182nd	Madagascar	77.76	-0.8%
183rd	Guinea-Bissau	78.29	-1.3%
184th	Togo	78.34	-0.5%
185th	Yemen, Republic of	78.45	-0.4%
186th	São Tomé and Principe	79.52	-1.6%
187th	Senegal	79.76	-1.9%
188th	Sudan	80.50	-1.0%
189th	Congo, Republic of	80.73	-0.3%
190th	Côte d'Ivoire	81.11	-0.3%
191st	Liberia	81.58	-0.9%
192nd	Eritrea	82.01	-1.9%
193rd	Gambia, The	82.28	-1.2%
194th	Cameroon	83.58	-0.6%
195th	Zambia	83.63	-1.5%
196th	Guinea	84.72	-1.0%
197th	Benin	84.88	-0.7%
198th	Zimbabwe	85.45	-1.2%
199th	South Sudan	85.83	-5.0%
200th	Nigeria	85.88	-1.4%
201st	Malawi	86.69	-2.3%
202nd	Tanzania	87.24	-0.6%
203rd	Afghanistan	88.51	-1.5%
204th	Burkina Faso	88.90	-1.4%
205th	Mauritania	89.69	-0.7%
206th	Uganda	91.57	-2.1%
207th	Angola	91.65	-0.3%
208th	Mozambique	92.66	-0.3%
209th	Monaco	95.44	1.2%
210th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	96.35	0.4%
211th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	98.63	-0.4%
212th	Burundi	99.00	-1.5%
213th	Mali	100.42	-0.9%
214th	Chad	100.68	-0.5%
215th	Niger	103.39	-1.0%
216th	Central African Republic	104.95	0.0%

FAQ

What was Puerto Rico (US)'s dependency ratio in 2019?▾

Puerto Rico (US)'s dependency ratio in 2019 was 55.56. This ranked 114th globally.

How did Puerto Rico (US)'s dependency ratio change in 2019?▾

Puerto Rico (US)'s dependency ratio increased by 0.1% in 2019 compared to 2018.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 2019?▾

Central African Republic had the highest dependency ratio in 2019 at 104.95.

What is the dependency ratio of Puerto Rico (US) in 2019?▾

The dependency ratio of Puerto Rico (US) in 2019 was 55.56. This ranked 114th globally.

How does 2019 compare to 2018 for Puerto Rico (US)'s dependency ratio?▾

Puerto Rico (US)'s dependency ratio went from 55.50 in 2018 to 55.56 in 2019, a 0.1% increase.

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