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South Africa - Dependency Ratio 1983

Name: South Africa Dependency Ratio 1983
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

77.50 −0.92 from 1982 Global rank: 119th

South Africa's dependency ratio was 77.50 in 1983, decreased +0.92 from 78.41 in 1982. This was the 119th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1983▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 1983
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Singapore	39.94	-2.4%
2nd	Andorra	40.45	0.4%
3rd	Qatar	41.18	-2.7%
4th	Greenland	41.40	-4.6%
5th	Serbia	43.23	-1.3%
6th	Bermuda	43.29	-0.7%
7th	United Arab Emirates	44.26	3.4%
8th	Liechtenstein	44.74	-2.2%
9th	San Marino	44.86	-2.0%
10th	Luxembourg	45.04	-2.2%
11th	Hong Kong SAR, China	45.05	-0.7%
12th	Germany	45.97	-3.9%
13th	Croatia	46.12	-1.6%
14th	Canada	46.25	-0.4%
15th	Channel Islands	46.78	-2.3%
16th	Macao SAR, China	46.88	-0.4%
17th	Finland	46.93	-0.3%
18th	Russian Federation	46.99	0.7%
19th	Switzerland	47.62	-1.8%
20th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	47.85	-2.3%
21st	Japan	47.93	-0.9%
22nd	Netherlands	48.12	-2.1%
23rd	Belarus	48.63	-0.5%
24th	Ukraine	49.02	-0.1%
25th	Slovenia	49.37	-2.0%
26th	Latvia	49.38	-0.4%
27th	Belgium	49.55	-2.4%
28th	Cayman Islands	49.63	-3.5%
29th	Bulgaria	49.69	-1.8%
30th	United States	49.92	0.0%
31st	Malta	50.27	0.7%
32nd	Austria	50.28	-3.6%
33rd	Italy	50.49	-3.1%
34th	Lithuania	50.50	-1.4%
35th	Estonia	51.16	-0.4%
36th	Georgia	51.32	-0.4%
37th	Denmark	51.53	-1.5%
38th	European Union	51.57	-2.3%
39th	Northern Mariana Islands	51.60	-11.2%
40th	Aruba	52.16	-1.1%
41st	Australia	52.20	-0.9%
42nd	Hungary	52.27	-2.1%
43rd	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	52.34	-6.7%
44th	Montenegro	52.36	-1.8%
45th	Moldova	52.57	0.5%
46th	Gibraltar	52.62	0.9%
47th	Cyprus	52.82	0.5%
48th	Poland	52.89	0.4%
49th	North Macedonia	53.11	-1.1%
50th	Monaco	53.31	0.1%
51st	France	53.33	-2.0%
52nd	United Kingdom	53.35	-1.9%
53rd	St. Martin (French part)	53.56	-13.0%
54th	Barbados	54.00	-0.6%
55th	Armenia	54.05	-0.4%
56th	Sweden	54.77	-0.6%
57th	Curaçao	54.84	-2.2%
58th	Greece	55.23	-1.7%
59th	New Zealand	55.51	-2.0%
60th	Czechia	55.58	-2.0%
61st	Romania	55.74	-5.3%
62nd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	55.76	-4.4%
63rd	Slovak Republic	55.80	-1.0%
64th	Cuba	56.04	-4.2%
65th	Spain	56.09	-1.7%
66th	Bahrain	56.50	-1.6%
67th	Korea	56.52	-2.6%
68th	Portugal	56.82	-1.3%
69th	Norway	56.83	-1.0%
70th	Guam	57.08	-1.8%
71st	Tuvalu	57.46	-2.1%
72nd	Iceland	57.84	-0.6%
73rd	Mauritius	57.95	-1.6%
74th	Chile	58.69	-1.5%
75th	Faroe Islands	59.14	-1.5%
76th	Bahamas, The	59.72	-2.9%
77th	Azerbaijan	59.89	-1.2%
78th	Uruguay	59.90	-0.2%
79th	Antigua and Barbuda	60.48	-2.6%
80th	British Virgin Islands	60.52	-3.7%
81st	Virgin Islands (US)	60.65	-2.5%
82nd	China	61.27	-3.5%
83rd	Trinidad and Tobago	62.95	0.2%
84th	Puerto Rico (US)	63.02	-1.6%
85th	Kuwait	63.47	-2.6%
86th	Argentina	63.53	0.7%
87th	Isle of Man	64.06	-1.6%
88th	Kazakhstan	64.91	-1.0%
89th	Thailand	65.13	-3.6%
90th	Nauru	65.41	7.3%
91st	Brunei Darussalam	65.59	-2.8%
92nd	Albania	66.81	-1.9%
93rd	Costa Rica	68.18	-0.7%
94th	Sri Lanka	68.18	-0.4%
95th	Ireland	68.40	-0.8%
96th	Brazil	70.38	-0.7%
97th	Timor-Leste	70.48	2.0%
98th	New Caledonia	70.54	-2.1%
99th	Israel	71.18	-0.3%
100th	Kosovo	71.50	-1.7%
101st	Palau	71.81	-3.9%
102nd	Seychelles	71.86	-1.9%
103rd	Malaysia	71.97	-0.7%
104th	Fiji	71.98	-0.4%
105th	Turks and Caicos Islands	72.01	-5.9%
106th	French Polynesia	72.51	-2.3%
107th	Kyrgyz Republic	72.81	-0.8%
108th	Colombia	73.03	-1.9%
109th	Lebanon	73.23	-1.6%
110th	Suriname	74.29	-2.8%
111th	American Samoa	74.40	-1.1%
112th	Myanmar	74.92	-0.7%
113th	Kiribati	75.65	-1.7%
114th	Indonesia	75.82	-1.5%
115th	Panama	76.08	-1.8%
116th	Grenada	76.45	-3.9%
117th	India	76.83	-0.4%
118th	Türkiye	77.02	-1.7%
119th	South Africa	77.50	-1.2%
120th	Uzbekistan	78.05	-1.2%
121st	Tunisia	78.84	-2.0%
122nd	Guyana	79.73	-2.8%
123rd	Papua New Guinea	80.06	-0.3%
124th	Nepal	80.27	0.2%
125th	Turkmenistan	80.30	-1.1%
126th	St. Kitts and Nevis	80.32	-2.0%
127th	Dominica	80.33	-4.3%
128th	Dominican Republic	81.70	-1.6%
129th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	81.71	-0.4%
130th	Ecuador	81.83	-1.5%
131st	Egypt, Arab Republic of	82.52	0.0%
132nd	Paraguay	82.75	-0.6%
133rd	Haiti	83.44	0.2%
134th	Viet Nam	83.48	0.0%
135th	Peru	83.86	-1.6%
136th	Bhutan	83.95	0.4%
137th	Jamaica	84.04	-1.9%
138th	Cambodia	84.11	-0.8%
139th	Saudi Arabia	84.22	-0.7%
140th	Philippines	84.48	-1.5%
141st	Iran, Islamic Republic of	85.07	1.0%
142nd	El Salvador	85.20	-1.2%
143rd	Morocco	85.21	-1.3%
144th	Equatorial Guinea	85.36	-1.9%
145th	Sierra Leone	86.35	0.4%
146th	Pakistan	86.57	0.4%
147th	Lesotho	87.23	0.9%
148th	Angola	87.38	-0.4%
149th	Tonga	87.44	-1.6%
150th	Central African Republic	87.54	-0.1%
151st	Tajikistan	87.71	-0.3%
152nd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	87.76	-2.7%
153rd	Mexico	88.36	-2.5%
154th	Eritrea	88.45	-0.3%
155th	Guinea	88.67	0.5%
156th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	88.94	-0.2%
157th	Gabon	89.29	1.1%
158th	Liberia	89.29	0.2%
159th	Mongolia	89.62	-1.5%
160th	Lao PDR	90.52	0.1%
161st	Samoa	90.63	-2.8%
162nd	Ghana	92.07	-1.0%
163rd	Djibouti	92.21	-0.5%
164th	Maldives	92.64	-1.0%
165th	Bangladesh	93.12	-0.3%
166th	Nigeria	93.70	0.8%
167th	Mali	93.88	1.2%
168th	St. Lucia	93.91	-1.3%
169th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	93.93	0.7%
170th	Vanuatu	93.99	-0.3%
171st	Congo, Republic of	94.27	-0.8%
172nd	Guatemala	94.53	0.6%
173rd	Algeria	94.79	-1.5%
174th	Belize	94.99	0.0%
175th	Sudan	95.03	-0.5%
176th	South Sudan	95.11	0.7%
177th	Mauritania	95.38	-0.2%
178th	Burkina Faso	95.82	0.8%
179th	Mozambique	95.96	0.4%
180th	Niger	96.03	0.2%
181st	São Tomé and Principe	96.05	-0.3%
182nd	Malawi	96.15	0.7%
183rd	Burundi	96.16	1.2%
184th	Togo	96.34	-0.1%
185th	Gambia, The	96.34	1.8%
186th	Afghanistan	96.35	0.6%
187th	Botswana	96.90	0.1%
188th	Libya	97.02	-1.6%
189th	Cameroon	97.60	2.0%
190th	Chad	98.04	-3.2%
191st	Benin	98.74	0.2%
192nd	Nicaragua	99.38	-0.1%
193rd	Senegal	99.58	0.9%
194th	Oman	99.70	-0.1%
195th	Rwanda	100.34	1.1%
196th	Côte d'Ivoire	100.55	0.6%
197th	Madagascar	100.76	-0.4%
198th	Honduras	101.07	-0.4%
199th	Micronesia, Federated States of	101.43	-0.4%
200th	Tanzania	102.33	0.2%
201st	Guinea-Bissau	102.72	1.1%
202nd	Iraq	103.14	-0.7%
203rd	Namibia	104.07	-1.3%
204th	Comoros	104.49	-0.2%
205th	Uganda	104.72	0.1%
206th	Solomon Islands	104.76	-0.5%
207th	Syrian Arab Republic	104.85	-0.8%
208th	Jordan	105.26	-1.3%
209th	Zimbabwe	105.82	-0.5%
210th	Cabo Verde	107.85	-1.3%
211th	Eswatini	109.18	0.5%
212th	Zambia	109.39	-0.7%
213th	Yemen, Republic of	110.16	1.3%
214th	Kenya	112.42	-1.0%
215th	Marshall Islands	115.03	0.1%

FAQ

What was South Africa's dependency ratio in 1983?▾

South Africa's dependency ratio in 1983 was 77.50. This ranked 119th globally.

How did South Africa's dependency ratio change in 1983?▾

South Africa's dependency ratio decreased by 1.2% in 1983 compared to 1982.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 1983?▾

Marshall Islands had the highest dependency ratio in 1983 at 115.03.

What is the dependency ratio of South Africa in 1983?▾

The dependency ratio of South Africa in 1983 was 77.50. This ranked 119th globally.

How does 1983 compare to 1982 for South Africa's dependency ratio?▾

South Africa's dependency ratio went from 78.41 in 1982 to 77.50 in 1983, a 1.2% decrease.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

South Africa matched the Fiscal Dominance Trap pattern in 1983. Historically: 386 occurrences, 278 successful (72%). Outcome 24 months later: 16.3%. View full analysis →

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