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Singapore - Dependency Ratio 2009

Name: Singapore Dependency Ratio 2009
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

27.87 −0.76 from 2008 Global rank: 4th

Singapore's dependency ratio was 27.87 in 2009, decreased +0.76 from 28.63 in 2008. This was the 4th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2009▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 2009
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Qatar	17.55	-4.8%
2nd	United Arab Emirates	22.46	-0.5%
3rd	Macao SAR, China	25.41	-4.1%
4th	Singapore	27.87	-2.6%
5th	Bahrain	29.35	-3.8%
6th	Cayman Islands	30.92	-0.9%
7th	Kuwait	33.53	-1.9%
8th	Hong Kong SAR, China	34.48	-1.1%
9th	Trinidad and Tobago	36.10	-0.4%
10th	Andorra	37.03	1.6%
11th	China	37.26	-0.4%
12th	Palau	37.72	-1.9%
13th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	38.00	-0.1%
14th	Korea	38.03	-1.0%
15th	Slovak Republic	38.54	-0.1%
16th	British Virgin Islands	38.80	1.0%
17th	Russian Federation	39.06	-1.4%
18th	Moldova	39.98	-1.9%
19th	Cyprus	39.99	-1.7%
20th	Mauritius	40.10	-2.0%
21st	Poland	40.25	-1.1%
22nd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	40.26	-1.2%
23rd	Azerbaijan	40.39	-3.5%
24th	Brunei Darussalam	40.45	0.0%
25th	Thailand	40.64	-0.9%
26th	Belarus	40.86	-1.5%
27th	Ukraine	41.24	-1.2%
28th	Northern Mariana Islands	41.53	1.5%
29th	Czechia	41.60	1.9%
30th	Turks and Caicos Islands	41.81	-0.5%
31st	Greenland	41.93	-0.8%
32nd	Liechtenstein	42.26	1.7%
33rd	Malta	42.70	0.6%
34th	Bermuda	42.90	-1.5%
35th	Seychelles	43.22	-2.5%
36th	Armenia	43.29	-1.7%
37th	Cuba	43.43	0.2%
38th	Aruba	43.54	0.6%
39th	Slovenia	43.57	1.3%
40th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	43.89	0.7%
41st	Canada	44.07	0.2%
42nd	Tunisia	44.47	-1.0%
43rd	Saudi Arabia	44.68	-4.5%
44th	Oman	45.04	-2.9%
45th	North Macedonia	45.12	-0.8%
46th	Viet Nam	45.17	-2.7%
47th	Channel Islands	45.23	-0.2%
48th	Hungary	45.24	0.4%
49th	Maldives	45.40	-6.1%
50th	Bulgaria	45.51	1.1%
51st	Antigua and Barbuda	45.55	-1.5%
52nd	St. Kitts and Nevis	45.60	-1.9%
53rd	Romania	45.66	1.1%
54th	Spain	45.85	1.4%
55th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	46.24	-0.7%
56th	Brazil	46.31	-1.3%
57th	Mongolia	46.41	-0.7%
58th	Chile	46.56	-1.2%
59th	Ireland	46.68	2.5%
60th	Luxembourg	46.75	-1.0%
61st	Kazakhstan	46.77	-0.4%
62nd	Switzerland	46.80	0.2%
63rd	Barbados	46.85	0.5%
64th	Serbia	47.04	-0.8%
65th	Latvia	47.28	1.6%
66th	St. Lucia	47.57	-2.5%
67th	Lithuania	47.76	-0.4%
68th	French Polynesia	47.79	-1.3%
69th	San Marino	47.79	0.9%
70th	Algeria	47.92	-0.7%
71st	Estonia	48.08	0.6%
72nd	United States	48.10	0.4%
73rd	Australia	48.15	0.0%
74th	Georgia	48.17	-1.5%
75th	Costa Rica	48.21	-1.4%
76th	Austria	48.25	0.1%
77th	Curaçao	48.32	-1.0%
78th	Lebanon	48.41	-1.7%
79th	Bahamas, The	48.54	-1.1%
80th	Iceland	48.59	1.1%
81st	Netherlands	48.64	0.5%
82nd	Sri Lanka	48.64	0.5%
83rd	St. Martin (French part)	48.76	-1.6%
84th	Montenegro	48.77	-0.7%
85th	European Union	49.27	0.6%
86th	Albania	49.46	-2.0%
87th	Croatia	49.95	-0.3%
88th	Malaysia	50.22	-2.6%
89th	Türkiye	50.25	-1.6%
90th	Greece	50.41	0.8%
91st	Portugal	50.46	0.6%
92nd	Finland	50.48	0.5%
93rd	Gibraltar	50.53	-0.5%
94th	Jamaica	50.64	-3.0%
95th	New Caledonia	50.80	-0.6%
96th	New Zealand	50.83	0.4%
97th	Colombia	50.85	-1.9%
98th	Norway	50.90	-0.1%
99th	Myanmar	51.10	-1.6%
100th	Indonesia	51.43	-0.7%
101st	United Kingdom	51.44	0.5%
102nd	Belgium	51.49	0.1%
103rd	Libya	51.69	-1.0%
104th	Isle of Man	51.71	0.4%
105th	Grenada	51.73	-2.4%
106th	Virgin Islands (US)	51.75	1.1%
107th	Uzbekistan	52.10	-2.5%
108th	Germany	52.16	0.7%
109th	Denmark	52.19	0.9%
110th	Italy	52.33	0.5%
111th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	52.39	-1.6%
112th	Guam	52.53	-0.8%
113th	Morocco	52.80	-1.1%
114th	Sweden	52.82	0.9%
115th	Turkmenistan	53.02	-2.9%
116th	South Africa	53.67	-1.0%
117th	Kosovo	53.70	-0.8%
118th	Dominica	53.82	-2.1%
119th	Kyrgyz Republic	53.83	-2.7%
120th	Bhutan	54.10	-2.7%
121st	France	54.24	0.7%
122nd	Fiji	54.78	-0.6%
123rd	Panama	55.23	-0.5%
124th	Puerto Rico (US)	55.56	0.3%
125th	Argentina	56.74	-0.6%
126th	Japan	56.79	1.9%
127th	Mexico	56.79	-1.6%
128th	Dominican Republic	56.87	-1.6%
129th	Suriname	56.95	-0.4%
130th	Faroe Islands	57.29	1.0%
131st	Uruguay	57.88	-0.7%
132nd	Peru	57.92	-1.0%
133rd	India	57.92	-1.6%
134th	Nauru	59.25	0.6%
135th	Guyana	59.60	-2.2%
136th	Ecuador	59.84	-1.2%
137th	Botswana	60.37	-1.1%
138th	Cambodia	60.42	-2.8%
139th	Israel	60.52	0.2%
140th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	60.76	-0.2%
141st	Paraguay	61.35	-2.1%
142nd	Cabo Verde	61.56	-4.2%
143rd	Bangladesh	62.70	-1.0%
144th	Monaco	62.85	5.3%
145th	Tuvalu	62.97	-2.1%
146th	Nicaragua	64.03	-1.9%
147th	American Samoa	64.35	-1.6%
148th	Philippines	64.73	-1.1%
149th	Micronesia, Federated States of	64.76	-2.1%
150th	El Salvador	64.94	-2.6%
151st	Syrian Arab Republic	65.89	0.4%
152nd	Jordan	66.34	-1.8%
153rd	Belize	67.20	-1.9%
154th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	67.30	-1.4%
155th	Tajikistan	67.56	-1.5%
156th	Djibouti	67.73	-1.6%
157th	Kiribati	67.76	-0.8%
158th	Papua New Guinea	67.90	-1.0%
159th	Namibia	68.01	-1.5%
160th	Haiti	68.20	-1.5%
161st	Lao PDR	68.91	-3.3%
162nd	Lesotho	69.34	-0.8%
163rd	Nepal	70.51	-2.4%
164th	Marshall Islands	70.87	0.9%
165th	Vanuatu	71.10	-1.0%
166th	Honduras	71.55	-2.4%
167th	Gabon	72.04	-1.5%
168th	Equatorial Guinea	72.18	-0.9%
169th	Eswatini	72.96	-2.0%
170th	Ghana	74.40	-1.0%
171st	Pakistan	76.32	-1.3%
172nd	Congo, Republic of	76.45	-0.8%
173rd	Samoa	76.73	-0.8%
174th	Tonga	77.18	-0.9%
175th	Guatemala	77.76	-2.2%
176th	Togo	79.46	-0.1%
177th	Iraq	80.11	-1.1%
178th	Solomon Islands	80.48	-0.2%
179th	West Bank and Gaza	82.68	-2.2%
180th	Rwanda	82.94	-0.5%
181st	Zimbabwe	84.48	1.2%
182nd	São Tomé and Principe	84.67	-0.2%
183rd	Kenya	84.67	-0.6%
184th	Timor-Leste	84.87	0.5%
185th	South Sudan	84.91	-1.6%
186th	Senegal	85.92	0.0%
187th	Guinea-Bissau	85.94	-0.8%
188th	Eritrea	86.35	-0.9%
189th	Liberia	86.45	-0.1%
190th	Comoros	86.83	-2.7%
191st	Sierra Leone	87.47	-0.6%
192nd	Cameroon	87.94	-0.4%
193rd	Yemen, Republic of	88.05	-2.3%
194th	Madagascar	88.63	-1.1%
195th	Côte d'Ivoire	89.07	-3.7%
196th	Benin	89.20	-0.7%
197th	Sudan	89.76	-0.9%
198th	Burundi	89.85	-0.9%
199th	Mauritania	89.92	-0.2%
200th	Nigeria	90.02	0.4%
201st	Gambia, The	90.22	-1.2%
202nd	Central African Republic	90.88	0.5%
203rd	Angola	91.78	0.0%
204th	Tanzania	92.46	0.7%
205th	Burkina Faso	93.11	0.3%
206th	Zambia	93.41	-0.9%
207th	Mozambique	93.50	0.5%
208th	Guinea	93.70	-1.0%
209th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	96.80	0.3%
210th	Mali	99.16	0.5%
211th	Malawi	99.79	-0.4%
212th	Chad	103.97	-0.3%
213th	Afghanistan	104.80	-1.4%
214th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	105.21	-0.4%
215th	Niger	106.75	0.7%
216th	Uganda	106.96	-0.9%

FAQ

What was Singapore's dependency ratio in 2009?▾

Singapore's dependency ratio in 2009 was 27.87. This ranked 4th globally.

How did Singapore's dependency ratio change in 2009?▾

Singapore's dependency ratio decreased by 2.6% in 2009 compared to 2008.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 2009?▾

Uganda had the highest dependency ratio in 2009 at 106.96.

What is the dependency ratio of Singapore in 2009?▾

The dependency ratio of Singapore in 2009 was 27.87. This ranked 4th globally.

How does 2009 compare to 2008 for Singapore's dependency ratio?▾

Singapore's dependency ratio went from 28.63 in 2008 to 27.87 in 2009, a 2.6% decrease.

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