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South Africa – Dependency Ratio 2003

Name: South Africa Dependency Ratio 2003
Creator: World Bank
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Ratio of dependents (people younger than 15 or older than 64) to the working-age population (15-64). Higher ratios imply greater economic burden on workers. · World Bank

59.46 −1.95 from 2002 G20 rank: 118th

South Africa's dependency ratio was 59.46 in 2003, decreased +1.95 from 61.41 in 2002. This was the 118th highest in the G20.

G20 Ranking – 2003▾

Dependency Ratio by Country – 2003
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	United Arab Emirates	24.71	-3.4%
2nd	Qatar	30.46	-2.1%
3rd	Singapore	33.04	-0.3%
4th	Cayman Islands	33.24	-0.7%
5th	Macao SAR, China	36.01	-6.1%
6th	Northern Mariana Islands	36.58	3.7%
7th	Hong Kong SAR, China	38.08	-0.9%
8th	Andorra	38.88	-1.7%
9th	Kuwait	39.07	-4.3%
10th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	39.34	-1.7%
11th	Bahrain	39.53	-6.8%
12th	Korea	39.53	0.2%
13th	Trinidad and Tobago	39.83	-3.4%
14th	British Virgin Islands	40.47	-3.7%
15th	Liechtenstein	40.74	0.1%
16th	Russian Federation	41.11	-1.0%
17th	Czechia	41.23	-1.6%
18th	Slovak Republic	41.60	-2.4%
19th	Slovenia	42.02	-0.6%
20th	Palau	42.03	0.9%
21st	China	42.09	-3.3%
22nd	Thailand	42.63	-0.8%
23rd	Aruba	42.88	-0.5%
24th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	43.31	-0.5%
25th	Ukraine	43.50	-0.6%
26th	Poland	43.66	-1.8%
27th	Turks and Caicos Islands	44.18	-2.3%
28th	Bermuda	44.20	0.9%
29th	Cuba	44.60	-0.5%
30th	Belarus	44.77	-1.7%
31st	Mauritius	45.04	-1.2%
32nd	Brunei Darussalam	45.06	-3.1%
33rd	Greenland	45.11	-1.5%
34th	Cyprus	45.15	-1.5%
35th	San Marino	45.16	1.1%
36th	Canada	45.22	-0.9%
37th	Moldova	45.23	-3.7%
38th	Hungary	45.53	-0.5%
39th	Romania	45.60	-1.3%
40th	Spain	45.69	-0.6%
41st	Malta	45.80	-0.9%
42nd	Bulgaria	45.95	-1.3%
43rd	Channel Islands	46.41	0.2%
44th	Latvia	46.73	-0.9%
45th	Austria	46.85	-0.8%
46th	Ireland	47.15	-0.9%
47th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	47.27	0.2%
48th	Estonia	47.36	-0.7%
49th	Switzerland	47.51	-0.6%
50th	Netherlands	47.88	0.2%
51st	North Macedonia	48.03	-1.0%
52nd	Sri Lanka	48.27	-0.6%
53rd	Serbia	48.28	0.1%
54th	European Union	48.45	-0.1%
55th	Germany	48.66	0.9%
56th	Barbados	48.76	-0.5%
57th	Kazakhstan	48.79	-1.9%
58th	Luxembourg	48.84	-0.3%
59th	Australia	48.84	-0.5%
60th	United States	48.87	-0.8%
61st	Portugal	49.02	0.7%
62nd	Japan	49.35	1.7%
63rd	Montenegro	49.37	0.2%
64th	Lithuania	49.47	-1.0%
65th	St. Martin (French part)	49.51	0.4%
66th	Finland	49.64	0.3%
67th	Croatia	49.79	0.3%
68th	Azerbaijan	49.81	-3.8%
69th	Greece	49.81	0.4%
70th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	49.83	-5.7%
71st	Italy	49.86	1.0%
72nd	Armenia	50.01	-2.1%
73rd	Seychelles	50.13	-2.4%
74th	Tunisia	50.26	-3.2%
75th	Brazil	50.75	-1.9%
76th	Denmark	50.84	0.5%
77th	New Zealand	51.35	-1.2%
78th	Antigua and Barbuda	51.54	-1.9%
79th	Chile	51.55	-1.6%
80th	Virgin Islands (US)	51.61	-0.7%
81st	Bahamas, The	51.86	-0.7%
82nd	Georgia	51.89	-0.4%
83rd	Gibraltar	52.00	0.9%
84th	United Kingdom	52.36	-0.3%
85th	Belgium	52.48	-0.1%
86th	Isle of Man	52.67	-0.3%
87th	Iceland	52.69	-0.8%
88th	French Polynesia	52.78	-2.3%
89th	Norway	53.16	-0.8%
90th	St. Kitts and Nevis	53.41	-3.6%
91st	Curaçao	53.48	-2.2%
92nd	New Caledonia	53.61	-0.8%
93rd	France	53.78	-0.1%
94th	Türkiye	53.91	-1.3%
95th	Indonesia	53.93	-1.1%
96th	Costa Rica	54.05	-2.4%
97th	Sweden	54.05	-0.9%
98th	Libya	54.23	-0.5%
99th	Algeria	54.29	-3.8%
100th	Viet Nam	54.66	-2.8%
101st	Mongolia	54.67	-4.6%
102nd	Puerto Rico (US)	54.72	0.2%
103rd	Lebanon	55.25	-2.2%
104th	Guam	55.53	0.0%
105th	Albania	55.61	-2.0%
106th	Myanmar	55.77	-1.2%
107th	Colombia	56.46	-1.4%
108th	Monaco	57.51	1.4%
109th	Panama	57.66	-1.0%
110th	St. Lucia	57.68	-3.1%
111th	Suriname	57.98	-0.7%
112th	Fiji	57.98	-1.3%
113th	Oman	58.04	-3.5%
114th	Malaysia	58.05	-1.9%
115th	Faroe Islands	58.31	-0.7%
116th	Morocco	58.68	-2.0%
117th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	58.78	-2.4%
118th	South Africa	59.46	-3.2%
119th	Argentina	59.52	-0.8%
120th	Uruguay	59.70	-0.2%
121st	Jamaica	59.91	-2.5%
122nd	Israel	60.84	0.1%
123rd	Kosovo	61.13	-4.6%
124th	Saudi Arabia	61.19	-4.5%
125th	Peru	61.24	-1.3%
126th	Dominica	61.92	-2.5%
127th	Mexico	62.38	-1.3%
128th	Kyrgyz Republic	62.98	-2.5%
129th	Dominican Republic	63.23	-1.3%
130th	Grenada	63.30	-4.2%
131st	Uzbekistan	63.60	-3.4%
132nd	Turkmenistan	63.78	-3.1%
133rd	India	63.84	-1.4%
134th	Nauru	64.41	-2.0%
135th	Ecuador	64.73	-1.1%
136th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	65.20	-2.0%
137th	Botswana	66.29	-2.4%
138th	Bhutan	66.30	-3.7%
139th	Maldives	66.42	-5.3%
140th	Bangladesh	66.51	-0.9%
141st	Guyana	66.93	-0.8%
142nd	Philippines	69.88	-1.4%
143rd	American Samoa	70.52	-0.8%
144th	El Salvador	70.57	-0.6%
145th	Paraguay	70.80	-2.2%
146th	Tuvalu	71.26	-1.3%
147th	Djibouti	71.87	-0.5%
148th	Papua New Guinea	72.04	-0.9%
149th	Nicaragua	72.75	-2.3%
150th	Jordan	72.92	-0.9%
151st	Marshall Islands	72.95	-2.6%
152nd	Micronesia, Federated States of	73.26	-1.5%
153rd	Kiribati	73.27	-1.8%
154th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	73.83	-1.4%
155th	Cambodia	74.38	-3.5%
156th	Belize	74.48	-1.6%
157th	Lesotho	74.80	-1.7%
158th	Haiti	75.41	-1.5%
159th	Tajikistan	77.21	-3.0%
160th	Syrian Arab Republic	77.29	-2.1%
161st	Tonga	77.54	0.3%
162nd	Namibia	77.57	-1.7%
163rd	Cabo Verde	78.37	-3.7%
164th	Nepal	78.61	-1.2%
165th	Vanuatu	78.83	-2.2%
166th	Equatorial Guinea	79.35	-2.6%
167th	Eswatini	79.52	-1.8%
168th	Ghana	79.72	-1.4%
169th	Gabon	80.02	-1.8%
170th	Timor-Leste	80.99	-0.4%
171st	Samoa	81.14	-1.1%
172nd	Congo, Republic of	81.14	-0.6%
173rd	Zimbabwe	81.15	0.2%
174th	Honduras	81.38	-1.7%
175th	Togo	81.61	-0.6%
176th	Solomon Islands	82.95	-1.1%
177th	Lao PDR	83.15	-1.8%
178th	Pakistan	84.44	-1.3%
179th	Liberia	85.51	0.0%
180th	Iraq	85.61	-0.9%
181st	Rwanda	85.99	-2.0%
182nd	São Tomé and Principe	86.22	-0.7%
183rd	Senegal	87.14	-0.8%
184th	Guatemala	87.73	-1.4%
185th	Nigeria	88.20	0.2%
186th	Eritrea	88.60	-2.8%
187th	Kenya	89.26	-1.4%
188th	Mauritania	89.72	0.1%
189th	Sierra Leone	89.94	-0.1%
190th	Tanzania	90.05	0.2%
191st	Central African Republic	90.08	-0.7%
192nd	Guinea-Bissau	90.29	-1.0%
193rd	Cameroon	90.69	-0.9%
194th	Mozambique	92.07	0.2%
195th	Benin	92.33	-0.8%
196th	Angola	92.58	-0.3%
197th	Madagascar	92.96	-0.2%
198th	Sudan	93.67	-0.4%
199th	South Sudan	93.74	0.8%
200th	Côte d'Ivoire	94.48	0.1%
201st	West Bank and Gaza	94.62	-1.7%
202nd	Burkina Faso	94.71	-1.0%
203rd	Congo, Democratic Republic of	95.40	0.4%
204th	Burundi	96.42	-2.0%
205th	Gambia, The	96.82	-1.0%
206th	Guinea	97.19	-0.5%
207th	Mali	97.62	-0.4%
208th	Zambia	98.48	-1.0%
209th	Malawi	99.18	0.4%
210th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	101.05	0.5%
211th	Niger	101.09	1.0%
212th	Comoros	101.12	-1.2%
213th	Yemen, Republic of	101.44	-1.9%
214th	Chad	106.77	-0.8%
215th	Uganda	110.40	-0.5%
216th	Afghanistan	110.56	0.0%

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