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São Tomé and Principe - Dependency Ratio 2023

Name: São Tomé and Principe Dependency Ratio 2023
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

72.85 −1.47 from 2022 Global rank: 178th

São Tomé and Principe's dependency ratio was 72.85 in 2023, decreased +1.47 from 74.32 in 2022. This was the 178th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2023▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 2023
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Qatar	20.10	0.7%
2nd	United Arab Emirates	22.00	-0.5%
3rd	Kuwait	27.48	-2.4%
4th	Bahrain	29.25	0.3%
5th	British Virgin Islands	32.17	-2.2%
6th	Maldives	32.26	-0.4%
7th	Cayman Islands	33.04	1.9%
8th	Singapore	33.13	1.0%
9th	Saudi Arabia	36.83	-2.2%
10th	Jamaica	36.98	-0.6%
11th	Turks and Caicos Islands	37.21	0.7%
12th	St. Lucia	37.30	-0.1%
13th	Brunei Darussalam	38.00	0.8%
14th	Macao SAR, China	38.07	2.8%
15th	Andorra	38.25	0.2%
16th	Bhutan	38.56	-2.2%
17th	Oman	38.67	-4.8%
18th	Mauritius	39.02	1.0%
19th	Seychelles	39.80	0.1%
20th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	40.86	0.0%
21st	St. Kitts and Nevis	40.91	1.1%
22nd	Korea	41.45	2.0%
23rd	Palau	41.62	0.9%
24th	Antigua and Barbuda	41.76	0.7%
25th	Malaysia	42.33	-1.3%
26th	Thailand	42.47	1.3%
27th	Bahamas, The	42.50	-0.8%
28th	Trinidad and Tobago	42.61	1.1%
29th	Colombia	42.80	0.1%
30th	Azerbaijan	43.59	0.1%
31st	Cyprus	43.63	1.3%
32nd	French Polynesia	43.80	-0.1%
33rd	Brazil	44.03	0.5%
34th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	44.41	-0.4%
35th	Dominica	44.62	-0.1%
36th	China	44.73	0.0%
37th	Greenland	44.76	2.6%
38th	Luxembourg	44.77	1.0%
39th	Kosovo	44.80	-0.2%
40th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	44.95	1.9%
41st	Costa Rica	45.03	-0.2%
42nd	Chile	45.09	0.1%
43rd	Northern Mariana Islands	45.60	2.8%
44th	Curaçao	46.04	0.7%
45th	Myanmar	46.21	0.0%
46th	Cuba	46.43	0.7%
47th	Grenada	46.45	-0.1%
48th	Belize	46.70	-2.2%
49th	Türkiye	46.72	-0.3%
50th	India	47.01	-0.9%
51st	Indonesia	47.02	-0.5%
52nd	Viet Nam	47.55	0.3%
53rd	Hong Kong SAR, China	47.81	3.5%
54th	South Africa	48.37	-0.4%
55th	New Caledonia	48.40	0.3%
56th	Armenia	48.71	-0.1%
57th	Libya	48.90	-1.9%
58th	Ukraine	48.93	0.8%
59th	Mexico	49.04	-0.7%
60th	Cabo Verde	49.14	-2.5%
61st	Malta	49.15	2.1%
62nd	Ecuador	49.47	-1.2%
63rd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	49.72	0.3%
64th	El Salvador	49.72	-1.2%
65th	Albania	50.02	1.6%
66th	Peru	50.04	-1.0%
67th	Iceland	50.16	-0.4%
68th	Aruba	50.50	1.4%
69th	Suriname	50.53	-0.2%
70th	Barbados	50.56	0.7%
71st	Tunisia	50.61	0.1%
72nd	Fiji	50.89	-0.8%
73rd	Belarus	50.91	1.2%
74th	Morocco	51.20	-0.2%
75th	Philippines	51.22	-2.2%
76th	Spain	51.31	0.6%
77th	Slovak Republic	51.42	1.9%
78th	Channel Islands	51.65	0.5%
79th	Sri Lanka	51.75	0.1%
80th	Russian Federation	51.79	1.6%
81st	Djibouti	52.23	-1.5%
82nd	Panama	52.28	-0.5%
83rd	San Marino	52.39	1.4%
84th	Argentina	52.42	-1.7%
85th	Austria	52.59	1.5%
86th	Dominican Republic	52.66	0.1%
87th	Uruguay	52.67	-0.8%
88th	Liechtenstein	52.70	2.1%
89th	Ireland	52.81	-0.3%
90th	North Macedonia	52.83	1.4%
91st	Nicaragua	52.87	-1.3%
92nd	Switzerland	52.96	1.5%
93rd	Poland	53.04	1.4%
94th	Canada	53.05	0.8%
95th	Bangladesh	53.10	-1.0%
96th	Lithuania	53.24	-0.7%
97th	Bermuda	53.35	2.3%
98th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	53.52	1.7%
99th	Syrian Arab Republic	53.90	-6.6%
100th	United States	53.91	1.0%
101st	Norway	53.94	-0.3%
102nd	American Samoa	53.99	-0.5%
103rd	Nepal	54.02	-0.3%
104th	Lao PDR	54.07	-1.1%
105th	Paraguay	54.20	0.0%
106th	New Zealand	54.26	0.4%
107th	Gibraltar	54.47	-0.4%
108th	Honduras	54.53	-1.1%
109th	Hungary	54.57	0.6%
110th	Netherlands	54.63	0.3%
111th	Australia	54.83	0.5%
112th	Jordan	55.16	-1.9%
113th	Moldova	55.30	1.5%
114th	Romania	55.35	0.4%
115th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	55.50	-1.2%
116th	Montenegro	55.76	0.8%
117th	Guyana	55.77	0.8%
118th	Turkmenistan	56.11	0.9%
119th	Cambodia	56.43	-0.6%
120th	Haiti	56.72	-1.2%
121st	Czechia	56.79	-1.1%
122nd	Puerto Rico (US)	56.86	0.3%
123rd	Botswana	56.86	-0.2%
124th	Slovenia	56.89	1.2%
125th	European Union	56.90	0.7%
126th	Georgia	57.13	0.3%
127th	Italy	57.14	0.2%
128th	Bulgaria	57.16	0.6%
129th	Belgium	57.32	0.6%
130th	Denmark	57.40	0.1%
131st	Lebanon	57.58	-0.7%
132nd	Uzbekistan	57.64	2.0%
133rd	United Kingdom	57.85	0.4%
134th	Serbia	57.95	1.1%
135th	Germany	57.99	1.5%
136th	Guatemala	58.41	-2.0%
137th	Estonia	58.43	0.1%
138th	Croatia	58.61	0.7%
139th	Portugal	58.74	1.4%
140th	Algeria	58.77	-0.1%
141st	Latvia	58.79	0.4%
142nd	Greece	58.91	0.0%
143rd	Papua New Guinea	59.12	-0.9%
144th	Isle of Man	59.33	0.7%
145th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	59.76	-1.2%
146th	Mongolia	60.00	0.0%
147th	Sweden	60.74	-0.2%
148th	Eswatini	60.81	-0.6%
149th	Kazakhstan	60.89	1.0%
150th	Micronesia, Federated States of	60.93	0.1%
151st	Faroe Islands	60.99	-1.5%
152nd	Kyrgyz Republic	61.55	-0.1%
153rd	Guam	61.65	2.2%
154th	St. Martin (French part)	62.17	4.5%
155th	Finland	62.64	0.3%
156th	France	62.69	0.5%
157th	Lesotho	63.27	-1.4%
158th	Virgin Islands (US)	63.30	1.9%
159th	Tuvalu	63.60	4.3%
160th	Kiribati	64.06	-0.2%
161st	Marshall Islands	64.17	1.5%
162nd	Timor-Leste	65.46	-2.8%
163rd	Ghana	66.14	-1.2%
164th	Israel	66.75	-0.3%
165th	Tajikistan	67.10	0.4%
166th	Kenya	67.67	-2.4%
167th	Iraq	68.03	-2.0%
168th	Gabon	68.65	-0.3%
169th	Nauru	69.09	0.4%
170th	Namibia	69.10	-0.5%
171st	Solomon Islands	69.46	-1.6%
172nd	Equatorial Guinea	69.80	-0.6%
173rd	Japan	70.10	-0.2%
174th	Pakistan	70.17	-0.8%
175th	Rwanda	71.10	-1.3%
176th	Sierra Leone	71.64	-1.7%
177th	Comoros	72.04	-1.2%
178th	São Tomé and Principe	72.85	-2.0%
179th	West Bank and Gaza	72.93	-0.9%
180th	Senegal	73.07	-2.0%
181st	Tonga	73.09	0.3%
182nd	Guinea-Bissau	73.57	-1.7%
183rd	South Sudan	74.72	-3.7%
184th	Eritrea	74.91	-2.0%
185th	Vanuatu	74.92	-0.6%
186th	Madagascar	75.15	-0.9%
187th	Togo	75.58	-1.2%
188th	Liberia	76.29	-1.9%
189th	Gambia, The	77.65	-1.5%
190th	Yemen, Republic of	77.73	-0.3%
191st	Congo, Republic of	77.93	-1.2%
192nd	Côte d'Ivoire	78.08	-1.4%
193rd	Zambia	78.11	-1.8%
194th	Sudan	78.13	-0.7%
195th	Malawi	78.28	-2.6%
196th	Samoa	79.96	0.4%
197th	Nigeria	80.25	-1.8%
198th	Cameroon	80.30	-1.2%
199th	Guinea	80.78	-1.3%
200th	Benin	81.57	-1.0%
201st	Zimbabwe	81.63	-1.1%
202nd	Burkina Faso	81.89	-2.2%
203rd	Afghanistan	83.84	-1.3%
204th	Tanzania	84.39	-0.7%
205th	Uganda	85.49	-1.3%
206th	Mauritania	86.05	-1.2%
207th	Angola	90.06	-0.6%
208th	Mozambique	90.55	-0.8%
209th	Burundi	91.85	-2.4%
210th	Chad	95.36	-2.6%
211th	Mali	95.56	-1.2%
212th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	96.68	-0.1%
213th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	97.02	-0.5%
214th	Monaco	98.16	-1.7%
215th	Niger	98.16	-1.4%
216th	Central African Republic	105.18	-0.4%

FAQ

What was São Tomé and Principe's dependency ratio in 2023?▾

São Tomé and Principe's dependency ratio in 2023 was 72.85. This ranked 178th globally.

How did São Tomé and Principe's dependency ratio change in 2023?▾

São Tomé and Principe's dependency ratio decreased by 2.0% in 2023 compared to 2022.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 2023?▾

Central African Republic had the highest dependency ratio in 2023 at 105.18.

What is the dependency ratio of São Tomé and Principe in 2023?▾

The dependency ratio of São Tomé and Principe in 2023 was 72.85. This ranked 178th globally.

How does 2023 compare to 2022 for São Tomé and Principe's dependency ratio?▾

São Tomé and Principe's dependency ratio went from 74.32 in 2022 to 72.85 in 2023, a 2.0% decrease.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

São Tomé and Principe matched the Fiscal Dominance Trap pattern in 2023. Historically: 386 occurrences, 278 successful (72%). View full analysis →

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