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South Africa - Dependency Ratio 1993

Name: South Africa Dependency Ratio 1993
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

70.20 −0.91 from 1992 Global rank: 114th

South Africa's dependency ratio was 70.20 in 1993, decreased +0.91 from 71.10 in 1992. This was the 114th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1993▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 1993
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Andorra	34.97	-0.8%
2nd	Cayman Islands	36.33	-2.4%
3rd	Singapore	36.42	-0.4%
4th	Qatar	38.06	-0.7%
5th	United Arab Emirates	39.65	-3.5%
6th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	40.05	1.0%
7th	Liechtenstein	41.09	0.3%
8th	Hong Kong SAR, China	41.50	-0.8%
9th	Bermuda	41.68	1.5%
10th	Korea	41.98	-1.4%
11th	San Marino	41.99	-0.4%
12th	Northern Mariana Islands	42.14	5.4%
13th	Japan	42.95	0.1%
14th	Cuba	44.49	-0.3%
15th	Slovenia	44.65	-0.8%
16th	Italy	45.01	0.6%
17th	Channel Islands	45.22	0.9%
18th	Serbia	45.44	1.1%
19th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	45.49	0.8%
20th	Greenland	45.53	2.4%
21st	Germany	45.75	0.6%
22nd	Netherlands	45.94	0.5%
23rd	Croatia	46.06	0.3%
24th	Luxembourg	46.35	1.6%
25th	Macao SAR, China	46.36	2.1%
26th	British Virgin Islands	47.13	-1.0%
27th	Switzerland	47.29	0.9%
28th	Spain	47.57	-1.5%
29th	Thailand	47.86	-1.8%
30th	Canada	47.87	0.5%
31st	Denmark	48.23	0.0%
32nd	Czechia	48.50	-1.9%
33rd	Hungary	48.61	-1.2%
34th	Austria	48.65	0.5%
35th	European Union	48.78	-0.2%
36th	St. Martin (French part)	49.09	3.3%
37th	Greece	49.17	-0.1%
38th	Finland	49.18	0.5%
39th	Romania	49.19	-1.2%
40th	Portugal	49.33	-0.9%
41st	Russian Federation	49.80	0.2%
42nd	Bulgaria	49.86	-0.5%
43rd	Gibraltar	49.96	1.5%
44th	Australia	49.99	0.3%
45th	Turks and Caicos Islands	50.08	-2.5%
46th	Aruba	50.42	-1.2%
47th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	50.50	6.7%
48th	Montenegro	50.56	-0.1%
49th	Malta	50.57	-0.5%
50th	Belgium	50.67	0.6%
51st	North Macedonia	51.09	0.0%
52nd	China	51.24	-0.4%
53rd	Ukraine	51.39	0.3%
54th	Lithuania	51.44	0.8%
55th	Estonia	51.81	0.5%
56th	Bahamas, The	51.94	0.5%
57th	Palau	51.94	-2.1%
58th	Latvia	52.04	1.0%
59th	Mauritius	52.04	-1.5%
60th	Belarus	52.08	0.6%
61st	Barbados	52.08	-0.8%
62nd	United States	52.16	0.3%
63rd	Slovak Republic	52.55	-1.7%
64th	Cyprus	52.56	0.3%
65th	New Zealand	52.61	0.4%
66th	Poland	52.66	-1.0%
67th	France	52.69	0.4%
68th	Virgin Islands (US)	52.82	-0.1%
69th	Guam	53.55	1.0%
70th	Curaçao	54.01	0.8%
71st	Monaco	54.12	0.8%
72nd	Bahrain	54.53	-1.5%
73rd	Georgia	54.71	1.3%
74th	Norway	54.77	0.1%
75th	United Kingdom	55.05	0.5%
76th	Iceland	55.67	0.6%
77th	Chile	55.92	0.1%
78th	Kuwait	56.03	-3.6%
79th	Puerto Rico (US)	56.38	-0.7%
80th	New Caledonia	56.69	-1.5%
81st	Sweden	56.73	0.7%
82nd	Moldova	57.10	0.3%
83rd	Isle of Man	57.57	-0.2%
84th	Sri Lanka	57.60	-2.8%
85th	Brunei Darussalam	57.88	-1.1%
86th	Trinidad and Tobago	58.27	-2.3%
87th	Ireland	58.48	-2.4%
88th	Uruguay	58.77	-0.1%
89th	Faroe Islands	59.50	1.5%
90th	Kazakhstan	59.52	-0.2%
91st	Antigua and Barbuda	60.07	-2.2%
92nd	Albania	60.59	-0.3%
93rd	Seychelles	61.30	-1.7%
94th	Armenia	61.48	5.9%
95th	Brazil	62.28	-1.9%
96th	Indonesia	62.81	-1.9%
97th	Azerbaijan	62.85	0.9%
98th	Argentina	63.42	-0.4%
99th	Colombia	64.18	-0.9%
100th	Türkiye	64.57	-1.9%
101st	French Polynesia	64.86	-0.9%
102nd	Panama	65.02	-1.3%
103rd	Israel	65.46	-0.8%
104th	Myanmar	65.83	-1.4%
105th	Costa Rica	66.29	-1.1%
106th	Malaysia	66.34	-1.2%
107th	Kosovo	66.41	-2.9%
108th	Lebanon	67.02	-1.2%
109th	Tunisia	67.20	-2.4%
110th	Suriname	67.33	-0.3%
111th	Guyana	67.73	-0.5%
112th	Grenada	68.00	1.1%
113th	Fiji	69.25	-1.2%
114th	South Africa	70.20	-1.3%
115th	Libya	71.29	-4.1%
116th	Mexico	71.31	-1.7%
117th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	71.34	-3.2%
118th	Ecuador	71.49	-0.9%
119th	Dominican Republic	71.68	-1.1%
120th	Tuvalu	71.69	2.3%
121st	Morocco	71.94	-2.0%
122nd	Dominica	71.94	-1.1%
123rd	Peru	72.12	-1.5%
124th	India	72.42	-0.9%
125th	St. Kitts and Nevis	72.45	-3.6%
126th	American Samoa	72.59	0.6%
127th	Jamaica	73.19	-0.9%
128th	Viet Nam	74.64	-1.8%
129th	St. Lucia	74.98	-1.5%
130th	Oman	75.19	-4.0%
131st	Kyrgyz Republic	76.06	2.0%
132nd	Mongolia	77.35	-2.3%
133rd	Uzbekistan	77.58	0.4%
134th	Papua New Guinea	77.92	-0.8%
135th	Jordan	78.03	-3.0%
136th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	78.47	-1.3%
137th	Algeria	78.48	-1.3%
138th	Saudi Arabia	78.91	-1.3%
139th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	78.95	-0.4%
140th	Nauru	78.99	-0.4%
141st	El Salvador	79.21	-1.1%
142nd	Philippines	79.41	-0.8%
143rd	Samoa	79.88	-1.4%
144th	Kiribati	80.05	1.1%
145th	Bangladesh	80.97	-2.1%
146th	Turkmenistan	80.99	-0.2%
147th	Timor-Leste	81.56	0.7%
148th	Nepal	81.83	-0.2%
149th	Tonga	82.04	-0.2%
150th	Paraguay	82.83	-0.1%
151st	Bhutan	83.17	-0.7%
152nd	Haiti	83.44	-0.4%
153rd	Namibia	83.58	-0.2%
154th	Djibouti	85.69	-0.9%
155th	Equatorial Guinea	86.05	0.9%
156th	Lesotho	88.04	-0.7%
157th	Botswana	88.26	-2.3%
158th	Congo, Republic of	88.36	-0.9%
159th	Liberia	88.54	-0.5%
160th	Sierra Leone	88.75	0.2%
161st	Iran, Islamic Republic of	88.79	0.1%
162nd	Lao PDR	89.96	0.1%
163rd	Congo, Democratic Republic of	90.01	0.1%
164th	Belize	90.08	-1.7%
165th	Togo	90.12	-1.0%
166th	Eritrea	90.18	-0.6%
167th	Mauritania	90.47	-1.8%
168th	Ghana	90.54	-0.8%
169th	Nicaragua	91.15	-1.7%
170th	Micronesia, Federated States of	91.20	-2.0%
171st	Guinea	91.29	0.3%
172nd	Pakistan	91.94	0.7%
173rd	Nigeria	91.98	-0.9%
174th	Gabon	92.11	-0.4%
175th	Angola	92.44	0.8%
176th	Central African Republic	92.56	0.4%
177th	Solomon Islands	92.64	-1.1%
178th	South Sudan	92.64	0.7%
179th	Cambodia	92.82	0.9%
180th	Iraq	92.84	-0.9%
181st	Vanuatu	92.98	2.5%
182nd	Tajikistan	93.07	1.6%
183rd	Syrian Arab Republic	93.29	-1.8%
184th	Mozambique	93.59	-0.6%
185th	Madagascar	93.64	-0.6%
186th	Honduras	94.00	-1.2%
187th	Tanzania	94.05	-1.8%
188th	Guatemala	94.64	-0.3%
189th	Eswatini	95.01	-1.2%
190th	Senegal	95.48	-1.1%
191st	Niger	95.64	-0.1%
192nd	Benin	96.50	-2.2%
193rd	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	96.58	-0.8%
194th	Sudan	97.32	0.3%
195th	São Tomé and Principe	97.61	0.0%
196th	Malawi	97.87	0.2%
197th	Côte d'Ivoire	98.42	-0.9%
198th	Cameroon	98.64	-0.3%
199th	Maldives	99.05	-0.5%
200th	Gambia, The	99.19	0.1%
201st	Cabo Verde	99.52	-0.9%
202nd	Guinea-Bissau	100.22	-0.9%
203rd	Zimbabwe	101.12	1.6%
204th	Afghanistan	102.00	0.9%
205th	Kenya	102.19	-1.2%
206th	Burkina Faso	102.51	0.1%
207th	Mali	102.94	0.1%
208th	Rwanda	103.03	-1.1%
209th	Chad	103.30	2.4%
210th	Zambia	103.90	-0.4%
211th	Marshall Islands	104.06	-3.0%
212th	West Bank and Gaza	104.39	-0.2%
213th	Uganda	105.97	0.2%
214th	Comoros	106.58	1.5%
215th	Burundi	115.54	8.5%
216th	Yemen, Republic of	117.28	-0.1%

FAQ

What was South Africa's dependency ratio in 1993?▾

South Africa's dependency ratio in 1993 was 70.20. This ranked 114th globally.

How did South Africa's dependency ratio change in 1993?▾

South Africa's dependency ratio decreased by 1.3% in 1993 compared to 1992.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 1993?▾

Yemen, Republic of had the highest dependency ratio in 1993 at 117.28.

What is the dependency ratio of South Africa in 1993?▾

The dependency ratio of South Africa in 1993 was 70.20. This ranked 114th globally.

How does 1993 compare to 1992 for South Africa's dependency ratio?▾

South Africa's dependency ratio went from 71.10 in 1992 to 70.20 in 1993, a 1.3% decrease.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

South Africa matched the Stagflation Risk pattern in 1993. Historically: 307 occurrences, 117 successful (38%). Outcome 24 months later: 8.7%. View full analysis →

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