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South Africa - Dependency Ratio 1980

Name: South Africa Dependency Ratio 1980
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

80.93 −1.04 from 1979 Global rank: 116th

South Africa's dependency ratio was 80.93 in 1980, decreased +1.04 from 81.97 in 1979. This was the 116th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1980▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 1980
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	United Arab Emirates	40.08	0.8%
2nd	Andorra	42.38	-2.9%
3rd	Bermuda	44.66	-1.7%
4th	Serbia	45.04	-1.0%
5th	Singapore	45.22	-5.0%
6th	Qatar	45.53	-4.8%
7th	Hong Kong SAR, China	46.67	-3.1%
8th	Russian Federation	46.74	0.8%
9th	Canada	47.40	-1.7%
10th	Liechtenstein	47.60	-2.4%
11th	Finland	47.67	-0.5%
12th	Luxembourg	47.79	-1.4%
13th	Japan	48.15	0.0%
14th	Croatia	48.42	-0.5%
15th	San Marino	48.53	-2.5%
16th	Greenland	48.88	-5.8%
17th	Malta	49.60	-0.1%
18th	Ukraine	49.91	0.0%
19th	Channel Islands	50.01	-1.7%
20th	Latvia	50.21	-0.1%
21st	Belarus	50.28	-1.2%
22nd	United States	50.32	-0.9%
23rd	Switzerland	50.58	-1.9%
24th	Netherlands	51.13	-2.0%
25th	Bulgaria	51.48	1.2%
26th	Germany	51.64	-2.8%
27th	Estonia	51.80	0.1%
28th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51.90	-2.5%
29th	Slovenia	52.08	-0.7%
30th	Moldova	52.08	0.8%
31st	Nauru	52.24	4.7%
32nd	Poland	52.39	0.7%
33rd	Georgia	52.41	-1.2%
34th	Gibraltar	52.75	-1.0%
35th	Lithuania	52.95	-1.4%
36th	Belgium	53.06	-1.5%
37th	Macao SAR, China	53.25	-15.7%
38th	Australia	53.52	-0.8%
39th	Aruba	53.62	-2.0%
40th	Cyprus	54.07	-2.6%
41st	Denmark	54.46	-1.5%
42nd	Hungary	54.63	0.8%
43rd	Cayman Islands	54.77	-3.5%
44th	European Union	54.92	-1.1%
45th	Italy	54.98	-1.9%
46th	Montenegro	55.49	-1.8%
47th	North Macedonia	55.53	-1.6%
48th	Armenia	55.65	-2.1%
49th	Austria	55.79	-2.5%
50th	Monaco	55.85	-2.2%
51st	Sweden	55.97	-0.7%
52nd	United Kingdom	56.18	-1.3%
53rd	Barbados	56.51	-3.1%
54th	Greece	56.66	0.3%
55th	France	57.00	-1.5%
56th	Slovak Republic	57.62	-0.2%
57th	Czechia	58.45	-0.1%
58th	Norway	58.54	-0.9%
59th	New Zealand	58.55	-1.6%
60th	Spain	59.03	-1.0%
61st	Portugal	59.09	-1.1%
62nd	Curaçao	59.31	-3.3%
63rd	Guam	59.38	-0.8%
64th	Iceland	59.69	-1.2%
65th	Romania	59.77	1.4%
66th	Bahrain	59.88	-3.2%
67th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	60.13	-0.3%
68th	Uruguay	60.13	0.1%
69th	Korea	60.92	-2.8%
70th	Mauritius	61.13	-2.2%
71st	Chile	61.49	-1.6%
72nd	Tuvalu	61.52	-2.0%
73rd	Argentina	61.84	1.2%
74th	Faroe Islands	61.87	-1.3%
75th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	63.19	-3.5%
76th	Trinidad and Tobago	63.31	-1.4%
77th	Azerbaijan	63.38	-2.9%
78th	Cuba	64.51	-4.2%
79th	Bahamas, The	65.38	-3.1%
80th	Antigua and Barbuda	65.94	-3.0%
81st	Timor-Leste	66.43	-0.5%
82nd	British Virgin Islands	66.68	-0.9%
83rd	Puerto Rico (US)	66.69	-1.6%
84th	Isle of Man	66.90	-1.4%
85th	Kazakhstan	67.10	3.4%
86th	Virgin Islands (US)	67.38	-4.1%
87th	China	68.05	-4.1%
88th	Kuwait	68.64	-2.5%
89th	Sri Lanka	69.12	-0.6%
90th	Ireland	69.89	-0.6%
91st	Brunei Darussalam	70.17	-1.7%
92nd	Costa Rica	70.55	-1.8%
93rd	Albania	70.73	-2.1%
94th	Israel	71.57	0.5%
95th	Brazil	72.24	-1.2%
96th	Thailand	72.35	-3.2%
97th	Fiji	73.58	-1.3%
98th	Northern Mariana Islands	73.71	-6.2%
99th	St. Martin (French part)	73.79	-5.4%
100th	Malaysia	74.08	-1.6%
101st	New Caledonia	74.66	-1.4%
102nd	Kyrgyz Republic	75.11	-1.3%
103rd	Kosovo	75.82	-2.5%
104th	Myanmar	76.52	-0.7%
105th	Seychelles	76.96	-3.0%
106th	Lebanon	77.00	-1.8%
107th	American Samoa	77.20	-2.3%
108th	French Polynesia	77.50	-1.9%
109th	Colombia	77.61	-2.2%
110th	India	77.76	-0.6%
111th	Indonesia	79.27	-1.2%
112th	Nepal	79.77	0.2%
113th	Türkiye	80.08	-1.2%
114th	Panama	80.48	-1.9%
115th	Kiribati	80.64	-2.6%
116th	South Africa	80.93	-1.3%
117th	Papua New Guinea	81.37	-1.6%
118th	Uzbekistan	81.90	-2.2%
119th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	82.46	0.2%
120th	Palau	82.47	-3.0%
121st	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	82.48	-0.2%
122nd	Suriname	82.68	-3.7%
123rd	Bhutan	82.87	0.5%
124th	Haiti	82.98	0.2%
125th	Turkmenistan	83.51	-1.7%
126th	Tunisia	83.90	-2.1%
127th	Viet Nam	83.90	-0.4%
128th	Cambodia	84.20	-1.8%
129th	Grenada	84.35	-1.0%
130th	Lesotho	84.78	1.1%
131st	Paraguay	84.86	-1.3%
132nd	Ecuador	85.37	-1.2%
133rd	Sierra Leone	85.42	0.4%
134th	Dominican Republic	85.97	-1.8%
135th	Equatorial Guinea	86.07	0.6%
136th	Saudi Arabia	86.09	-0.7%
137th	Guyana	86.19	-1.7%
138th	Gabon	86.33	1.2%
139th	St. Kitts and Nevis	86.38	-1.8%
140th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	86.69	0.6%
141st	Turks and Caicos Islands	86.79	-3.9%
142nd	Guinea	87.03	0.9%
143rd	Pakistan	87.24	-1.2%
144th	Peru	87.67	-1.2%
145th	Central African Republic	87.72	-0.1%
146th	El Salvador	88.25	-1.4%
147th	Eritrea	88.44	0.2%
148th	Philippines	88.47	-1.6%
149th	Liberia	88.47	0.4%
150th	Tajikistan	88.49	-0.4%
151st	Morocco	88.67	-1.5%
152nd	Angola	88.77	-0.8%
153rd	Congo, Democratic Republic of	89.05	-0.2%
154th	Jamaica	89.49	-2.2%
155th	Lao PDR	89.87	0.8%
156th	Mali	90.30	1.4%
157th	Gambia, The	91.44	1.7%
158th	Dominica	91.47	-2.8%
159th	Nigeria	91.49	0.8%
160th	Tonga	91.51	-1.5%
161st	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	92.18	0.5%
162nd	South Sudan	93.18	0.7%
163rd	Bangladesh	93.18	0.3%
164th	Djibouti	93.20	-0.1%
165th	Guatemala	93.21	0.2%
166th	Burkina Faso	93.22	1.0%
167th	Mozambique	93.61	1.6%
168th	Cameroon	93.97	0.4%
169th	Malawi	94.07	0.7%
170th	Mongolia	94.11	-1.8%
171st	Maldives	94.21	0.2%
172nd	Afghanistan	94.45	0.8%
173rd	Burundi	94.59	-1.7%
174th	Mexico	95.14	-1.7%
175th	Ghana	95.48	-1.4%
176th	Niger	95.51	0.0%
177th	Mauritania	95.76	0.1%
178th	Vanuatu	95.76	2.4%
179th	Belize	96.10	-1.3%
180th	Botswana	96.34	0.2%
181st	Congo, Republic of	96.35	-0.5%
182nd	Senegal	96.44	1.5%
183rd	Togo	96.51	0.1%
184th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	96.55	-2.1%
185th	Rwanda	97.14	0.7%
186th	Sudan	97.23	-1.2%
187th	São Tomé and Principe	97.44	-0.7%
188th	Samoa	97.47	-2.0%
189th	Benin	98.09	0.2%
190th	Côte d'Ivoire	98.24	1.1%
191st	St. Lucia	98.25	-2.5%
192nd	Algeria	98.87	-1.3%
193rd	Guinea-Bissau	99.18	-0.2%
194th	Nicaragua	99.70	0.2%
195th	Oman	100.20	-0.3%
196th	Tanzania	100.34	1.1%
197th	Libya	100.44	-0.9%
198th	Madagascar	101.50	0.1%
199th	Chad	101.65	3.9%
200th	Honduras	101.93	-0.1%
201st	Micronesia, Federated States of	102.26	0.0%
202nd	Namibia	102.88	1.1%
203rd	Uganda	103.54	0.9%
204th	Iraq	105.09	-0.7%
205th	Comoros	105.22	-0.2%
206th	Yemen, Republic of	105.65	1.6%
207th	Solomon Islands	106.12	-0.2%
208th	Syrian Arab Republic	106.69	-0.2%
209th	Eswatini	106.89	0.8%
210th	Zimbabwe	108.91	-0.8%
211th	Jordan	109.35	-1.1%
212th	Zambia	111.11	0.1%
213th	Cabo Verde	111.84	0.1%
214th	Marshall Islands	114.26	0.9%
215th	Kenya	115.47	-0.8%

FAQ

What was South Africa's dependency ratio in 1980?▾

South Africa's dependency ratio in 1980 was 80.93. This ranked 116th globally.

How did South Africa's dependency ratio change in 1980?▾

South Africa's dependency ratio decreased by 1.3% in 1980 compared to 1979.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 1980?▾

Kenya had the highest dependency ratio in 1980 at 115.47.

What is the dependency ratio of South Africa in 1980?▾

The dependency ratio of South Africa in 1980 was 80.93. This ranked 116th globally.

How does 1980 compare to 1979 for South Africa's dependency ratio?▾

South Africa's dependency ratio went from 81.97 in 1979 to 80.93 in 1980, a 1.3% decrease.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

South Africa matched the Fiscal Dominance Trap pattern in 1980. Historically: 386 occurrences, 278 successful (72%). Outcome 24 months later: 14.6%. View full analysis →

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