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South Africa - Dependency Ratio 1992

Name: South Africa Dependency Ratio 1992
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

71.10 +0.25 from 1991 Global rank: 115th

South Africa's dependency ratio was 71.10 in 1992, increased +0.25 from 70.85 in 1991. This was the 115th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1992▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 1992
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Andorra	35.24	-2.7%
2nd	Singapore	36.57	-0.4%
3rd	Cayman Islands	37.23	-3.0%
4th	Qatar	38.34	-0.8%
5th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	39.66	0.9%
6th	Northern Mariana Islands	39.97	6.3%
7th	Liechtenstein	40.96	0.3%
8th	Bermuda	41.05	1.7%
9th	United Arab Emirates	41.07	-3.5%
10th	Hong Kong SAR, China	41.83	-0.8%
11th	San Marino	42.15	-0.3%
12th	Korea	42.59	-1.7%
13th	Japan	42.89	-0.1%
14th	Greenland	44.47	2.6%
15th	Cuba	44.62	-0.6%
16th	Italy	44.75	-0.8%
17th	Channel Islands	44.82	1.0%
18th	Serbia	44.94	1.1%
19th	Slovenia	45.01	-1.0%
20th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	45.14	0.5%
21st	Macao SAR, China	45.39	2.1%
22nd	Germany	45.49	0.5%
23rd	Luxembourg	45.62	1.5%
24th	Netherlands	45.69	0.6%
25th	Croatia	45.94	0.3%
26th	Switzerland	46.87	0.7%
27th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	47.31	4.5%
28th	St. Martin (French part)	47.53	4.4%
29th	British Virgin Islands	47.62	-1.0%
30th	Canada	47.65	0.7%
31st	Denmark	48.22	0.0%
32nd	Spain	48.30	-1.7%
33rd	Austria	48.42	0.4%
34th	Thailand	48.76	-2.3%
35th	European Union	48.85	-0.3%
36th	Finland	48.95	0.4%
37th	Hungary	49.21	-1.4%
38th	Gibraltar	49.22	0.0%
39th	Greece	49.23	-0.1%
40th	Czechia	49.45	-1.9%
41st	Russian Federation	49.72	0.6%
42nd	Portugal	49.79	-1.5%
43rd	Romania	49.81	-1.5%
44th	Australia	49.81	0.4%
45th	Bulgaria	50.09	-0.4%
46th	Belgium	50.35	0.9%
47th	Montenegro	50.60	0.0%
48th	Malta	50.81	-0.4%
49th	Lithuania	51.03	0.9%
50th	Aruba	51.04	1.6%
51st	North Macedonia	51.07	-0.4%
52nd	Ukraine	51.21	0.4%
53rd	Turks and Caicos Islands	51.38	-2.4%
54th	China	51.47	-0.5%
55th	Latvia	51.50	2.2%
56th	Estonia	51.57	0.4%
57th	Bahamas, The	51.68	0.1%
58th	Belarus	51.75	0.8%
59th	United States	52.00	0.7%
60th	New Zealand	52.38	0.1%
61st	Cyprus	52.39	-0.3%
62nd	France	52.49	0.6%
63rd	Barbados	52.53	-1.1%
64th	Mauritius	52.84	-1.3%
65th	Virgin Islands (US)	52.87	-0.6%
66th	Guam	53.02	1.3%
67th	Palau	53.03	-2.7%
68th	Poland	53.19	-0.9%
69th	Slovak Republic	53.45	-1.5%
70th	Curaçao	53.59	0.7%
71st	Monaco	53.70	0.8%
72nd	Georgia	54.00	1.4%
73rd	Norway	54.69	0.3%
74th	United Kingdom	54.78	0.8%
75th	Iceland	55.31	0.3%
76th	Bahrain	55.36	-0.6%
77th	Chile	55.88	0.1%
78th	Sweden	56.36	0.7%
79th	Puerto Rico (US)	56.80	-0.7%
80th	Moldova	56.90	0.3%
81st	New Caledonia	57.57	-1.6%
82nd	Isle of Man	57.70	-0.2%
83rd	Armenia	58.04	4.4%
84th	Kuwait	58.13	-1.7%
85th	Brunei Darussalam	58.52	-0.3%
86th	Faroe Islands	58.64	1.6%
87th	Uruguay	58.86	-0.3%
88th	Sri Lanka	59.28	-2.5%
89th	Kazakhstan	59.64	-0.2%
90th	Trinidad and Tobago	59.65	-1.9%
91st	Ireland	59.91	-2.2%
92nd	Albania	60.79	-0.5%
93rd	Antigua and Barbuda	61.41	-2.4%
94th	Azerbaijan	62.28	1.0%
95th	Seychelles	62.38	-1.8%
96th	Brazil	63.46	-1.7%
97th	Argentina	63.70	-0.3%
98th	Indonesia	64.00	-1.8%
99th	Colombia	64.79	-1.0%
100th	French Polynesia	65.48	-0.8%
101st	Türkiye	65.79	-1.8%
102nd	Panama	65.85	-1.3%
103rd	Israel	65.99	-1.3%
104th	Myanmar	66.74	-1.3%
105th	Costa Rica	67.04	-0.9%
106th	Malaysia	67.11	-1.3%
107th	Grenada	67.28	0.7%
108th	Suriname	67.55	-0.4%
109th	Lebanon	67.86	-1.0%
110th	Guyana	68.07	-0.6%
111th	Kosovo	68.39	-2.6%
112th	Tunisia	68.86	-2.2%
113th	Tuvalu	70.11	2.4%
114th	Fiji	70.12	-1.0%
115th	South Africa	71.10	0.4%
116th	American Samoa	72.14	0.8%
117th	Ecuador	72.15	-1.0%
118th	Dominican Republic	72.47	-1.1%
119th	Mexico	72.58	-2.1%
120th	Dominica	72.78	-0.7%
121st	India	73.04	-0.8%
122nd	Peru	73.24	-1.5%
123rd	Morocco	73.40	-1.9%
124th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	73.72	-3.2%
125th	Jamaica	73.86	-1.0%
126th	Libya	74.33	-3.8%
127th	Kyrgyz Republic	74.56	0.7%
128th	St. Kitts and Nevis	75.14	-2.9%
129th	Viet Nam	76.04	-1.6%
130th	St. Lucia	76.11	-1.4%
131st	Uzbekistan	77.28	0.5%
132nd	Oman	78.33	-3.9%
133rd	Papua New Guinea	78.54	-0.7%
134th	Mongolia	79.13	-2.1%
135th	Kiribati	79.20	1.3%
136th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	79.24	-0.4%
137th	Nauru	79.30	0.4%
138th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	79.49	-1.0%
139th	Algeria	79.53	-1.4%
140th	Saudi Arabia	79.97	-1.1%
141st	Philippines	80.07	-0.4%
142nd	El Salvador	80.11	-0.2%
143rd	Jordan	80.45	-3.3%
144th	Timor-Leste	80.96	0.7%
145th	Samoa	81.03	-1.2%
146th	Turkmenistan	81.16	0.1%
147th	Nepal	81.98	-0.4%
148th	Tonga	82.17	-0.1%
149th	Bangladesh	82.67	-2.0%
150th	Paraguay	82.93	0.1%
151st	Bhutan	83.77	-0.4%
152nd	Namibia	83.78	-0.2%
153rd	Haiti	83.79	-0.3%
154th	Equatorial Guinea	85.25	1.1%
155th	Djibouti	86.44	-0.8%
156th	Sierra Leone	88.56	0.2%
157th	Lesotho	88.62	-0.3%
158th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	88.66	-0.7%
159th	Liberia	88.99	-0.4%
160th	Congo, Republic of	89.13	-0.8%
161st	Lao PDR	89.87	0.0%
162nd	Congo, Democratic Republic of	89.94	0.2%
163rd	Botswana	90.36	-1.9%
164th	Vanuatu	90.71	0.6%
165th	Eritrea	90.75	0.7%
166th	Guinea	90.97	0.4%
167th	Togo	91.01	-0.9%
168th	Ghana	91.28	-0.4%
169th	Pakistan	91.32	0.8%
170th	Tajikistan	91.57	1.3%
171st	Belize	91.67	-1.4%
172nd	Angola	91.74	0.8%
173rd	South Sudan	92.00	0.4%
174th	Cambodia	92.00	1.9%
175th	Mauritania	92.10	-1.7%
176th	Central African Republic	92.21	0.8%
177th	Gabon	92.52	-0.3%
178th	Nicaragua	92.77	-1.6%
179th	Nigeria	92.78	-0.7%
180th	Micronesia, Federated States of	93.10	-1.8%
181st	Iraq	93.69	-1.0%
182nd	Solomon Islands	93.70	-1.3%
183rd	Mozambique	94.15	-0.4%
184th	Madagascar	94.17	-0.6%
185th	Guatemala	94.92	-0.2%
186th	Syrian Arab Republic	94.99	-1.7%
187th	Honduras	95.16	-1.1%
188th	Niger	95.72	-0.1%
189th	Tanzania	95.81	-0.7%
190th	Eswatini	96.13	-2.2%
191st	Senegal	96.56	-1.0%
192nd	Sudan	97.03	0.5%
193rd	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	97.38	-2.4%
194th	São Tomé and Principe	97.60	0.3%
195th	Malawi	97.69	0.3%
196th	Benin	98.62	-0.2%
197th	Cameroon	98.98	-0.2%
198th	Gambia, The	99.05	0.1%
199th	Côte d'Ivoire	99.29	-0.9%
200th	Zimbabwe	99.55	0.9%
201st	Maldives	99.58	0.2%
202nd	Cabo Verde	100.38	-0.7%
203rd	Chad	100.92	-0.9%
204th	Afghanistan	101.13	0.8%
205th	Guinea-Bissau	101.15	-1.2%
206th	Burkina Faso	102.44	0.4%
207th	Mali	102.86	0.3%
208th	Kenya	103.39	-1.1%
209th	Rwanda	104.21	-0.9%
210th	Zambia	104.27	-0.4%
211th	West Bank and Gaza	104.62	-0.2%
212th	Comoros	105.03	0.8%
213th	Uganda	105.74	0.2%
214th	Burundi	106.51	-0.5%
215th	Marshall Islands	107.33	-2.6%
216th	Yemen, Republic of	117.40	0.1%

FAQ

What was South Africa's dependency ratio in 1992?▾

South Africa's dependency ratio in 1992 was 71.10. This ranked 115th globally.

How did South Africa's dependency ratio change in 1992?▾

South Africa's dependency ratio increased by 0.4% in 1992 compared to 1991.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 1992?▾

Yemen, Republic of had the highest dependency ratio in 1992 at 117.40.

What is the dependency ratio of South Africa in 1992?▾

The dependency ratio of South Africa in 1992 was 71.10. This ranked 115th globally.

How does 1992 compare to 1991 for South Africa's dependency ratio?▾

South Africa's dependency ratio went from 70.85 in 1991 to 71.10 in 1992, a 0.4% increase.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

South Africa matched the Stagflation Risk pattern in 1992. Historically: 307 occurrences, 117 successful (38%). Outcome 24 months later: 8.9%. View full analysis →

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