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South Africa – Dependency Ratio 2004

Name: South Africa Dependency Ratio 2004
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

57.86 −1.60 from 2003 G20 rank: 117th

South Africa's dependency ratio was 57.86 in 2004, decreased +1.60 from 59.46 in 2003. This was the 117th highest in the G20.

G20 Ranking – 2004▾

Dependency Ratio by Country – 2004
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	United Arab Emirates	24.20	-2.1%
2nd	Qatar	30.48	0.0%
3rd	Singapore	32.66	-1.1%
4th	Cayman Islands	32.90	-1.0%
5th	Macao SAR, China	33.65	-6.5%
6th	Bahrain	37.01	-6.4%
7th	Andorra	37.33	-4.0%
8th	Kuwait	37.47	-4.1%
9th	Hong Kong SAR, China	37.48	-1.6%
10th	Northern Mariana Islands	37.75	3.2%
11th	Trinidad and Tobago	38.66	-2.9%
12th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	38.72	-1.6%
13th	British Virgin Islands	39.31	-2.9%
14th	Korea	39.53	0.0%
15th	China	40.69	-3.3%
16th	Czechia	40.70	-1.3%
17th	Liechtenstein	40.71	-0.1%
18th	Slovak Republic	40.75	-2.0%
19th	Russian Federation	40.93	-0.4%
20th	Slovenia	41.93	-0.2%
21st	Palau	42.29	0.6%
22nd	Thailand	42.36	-0.6%
23rd	Aruba	42.69	-0.4%
24th	Poland	42.93	-1.7%
25th	Ukraine	43.28	-0.5%
26th	Turks and Caicos Islands	43.32	-1.9%
27th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	43.41	0.2%
28th	Brunei Darussalam	43.67	-3.1%
29th	Moldova	43.71	-3.4%
30th	Belarus	44.02	-1.7%
31st	Cuba	44.25	-0.8%
32nd	Cyprus	44.32	-1.8%
33rd	Mauritius	44.43	-1.4%
34th	Greenland	44.47	-1.4%
35th	Bermuda	44.54	0.8%
36th	Canada	44.82	-0.9%
37th	Romania	45.07	-1.2%
38th	Spain	45.22	-1.0%
39th	Malta	45.24	-1.2%
40th	Hungary	45.29	-0.5%
41st	Bulgaria	45.37	-1.3%
42nd	San Marino	45.59	1.0%
43rd	Channel Islands	46.41	0.0%
44th	Latvia	46.42	-0.7%
45th	Ireland	46.81	-0.7%
46th	Austria	46.98	0.3%
47th	Estonia	47.06	-0.6%
48th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	47.08	-5.5%
49th	Switzerland	47.26	-0.5%
50th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	47.38	0.2%
51st	North Macedonia	47.47	-1.2%
52nd	Azerbaijan	48.03	-3.6%
53rd	Netherlands	48.05	0.3%
54th	Sri Lanka	48.11	-0.3%
55th	Kazakhstan	48.14	-1.3%
56th	Serbia	48.28	0.0%
57th	Barbados	48.35	-0.8%
58th	European Union	48.46	0.0%
59th	United States	48.50	-0.8%
60th	Luxembourg	48.64	-0.4%
61st	Australia	48.65	-0.4%
62nd	Tunisia	48.74	-3.0%
63rd	Seychelles	48.95	-2.4%
64th	Armenia	48.99	-2.0%
65th	Lithuania	49.20	-0.5%
66th	Germany	49.30	1.3%
67th	Portugal	49.37	0.7%
68th	Montenegro	49.60	0.5%
69th	St. Martin (French part)	49.82	0.6%
70th	Brazil	49.83	-1.8%
71st	Croatia	49.85	0.1%
72nd	Finland	49.85	0.4%
73rd	Greece	49.92	0.2%
74th	Japan	50.29	1.9%
75th	Italy	50.34	1.0%
76th	Antigua and Barbuda	50.47	-2.1%
77th	Chile	50.62	-1.8%
78th	New Zealand	50.85	-1.0%
79th	Denmark	51.05	0.4%
80th	Virgin Islands (US)	51.37	-0.5%
81st	Bahamas, The	51.43	-0.8%
82nd	St. Kitts and Nevis	51.54	-3.5%
83rd	Georgia	51.65	-0.5%
84th	French Polynesia	51.78	-1.9%
85th	Iceland	52.07	-1.2%
86th	United Kingdom	52.22	-0.3%
87th	Curaçao	52.29	-2.2%
88th	Mongolia	52.31	-4.3%
89th	Isle of Man	52.37	-0.6%
90th	Gibraltar	52.40	0.8%
91st	Algeria	52.45	-3.4%
92nd	Belgium	52.46	0.0%
93rd	Norway	52.76	-0.7%
94th	Costa Rica	52.81	-2.3%
95th	Viet Nam	53.05	-2.9%
96th	New Caledonia	53.09	-1.0%
97th	Türkiye	53.28	-1.2%
98th	Indonesia	53.35	-1.1%
99th	Sweden	53.62	-0.8%
100th	France	53.73	-0.1%
101st	Lebanon	53.95	-2.4%
102nd	Libya	54.08	-0.3%
103rd	Albania	54.52	-2.0%
104th	Puerto Rico (US)	54.83	0.2%
105th	Myanmar	55.08	-1.2%
106th	Guam	55.30	-0.4%
107th	Oman	55.62	-4.2%
108th	Colombia	55.63	-1.5%
109th	St. Lucia	55.82	-3.2%
110th	Malaysia	56.81	-2.1%
111th	Panama	57.15	-0.9%
112th	Fiji	57.28	-1.2%
113th	Morocco	57.45	-2.1%
114th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	57.50	-2.2%
115th	Faroe Islands	57.56	-1.3%
116th	Suriname	57.74	-0.4%
117th	South Africa	57.86	-2.7%
118th	Saudi Arabia	58.08	-5.1%
119th	Monaco	58.19	1.2%
120th	Jamaica	58.44	-2.4%
121st	Kosovo	58.75	-3.9%
122nd	Argentina	58.99	-0.9%
123rd	Uruguay	59.45	-0.4%
124th	Dominica	60.48	-2.3%
125th	Peru	60.52	-1.2%
126th	Grenada	60.70	-4.1%
127th	Israel	60.87	0.1%
128th	Kyrgyz Republic	61.50	-2.4%
129th	Uzbekistan	61.51	-3.3%
130th	Mexico	61.55	-1.3%
131st	Turkmenistan	61.84	-3.1%
132nd	Dominican Republic	62.23	-1.6%
133rd	Nauru	62.87	-2.4%
134th	India	62.88	-1.5%
135th	Maldives	62.89	-5.3%
136th	Bhutan	63.57	-4.1%
137th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	63.91	-2.0%
138th	Ecuador	63.94	-1.2%
139th	Botswana	64.87	-2.2%
140th	Bangladesh	65.87	-1.0%
141st	Guyana	66.09	-1.3%
142nd	Philippines	68.86	-1.5%
143rd	Paraguay	69.00	-2.5%
144th	American Samoa	69.80	-1.0%
145th	Tuvalu	70.00	-1.8%
146th	El Salvador	70.12	-0.6%
147th	Nicaragua	71.08	-2.3%
148th	Papua New Guinea	71.31	-1.0%
149th	Marshall Islands	71.31	-2.3%
150th	Cambodia	71.77	-3.5%
151st	Djibouti	71.98	0.2%
152nd	Kiribati	72.01	-1.7%
153rd	Jordan	72.08	-1.2%
154th	Micronesia, Federated States of	72.10	-1.6%
155th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	72.73	-1.5%
156th	Belize	73.28	-1.6%
157th	Lesotho	73.65	-1.5%
158th	Haiti	74.15	-1.7%
159th	Tajikistan	75.08	-2.8%
160th	Cabo Verde	75.38	-3.8%
161st	Syrian Arab Republic	75.58	-2.2%
162nd	Namibia	76.03	-2.0%
163rd	Vanuatu	77.14	-2.1%
164th	Equatorial Guinea	77.35	-2.5%
165th	Nepal	77.53	-1.4%
166th	Tonga	77.97	0.6%
167th	Eswatini	78.41	-1.4%
168th	Gabon	78.57	-1.8%
169th	Ghana	78.68	-1.3%
170th	Honduras	79.90	-1.8%
171st	Congo, Republic of	80.07	-1.3%
172nd	Samoa	80.46	-0.8%
173rd	Timor-Leste	80.66	-0.4%
174th	Togo	81.11	-0.6%
175th	Lao PDR	81.53	-1.9%
176th	Zimbabwe	81.61	0.6%
177th	Solomon Islands	82.16	-1.0%
178th	Pakistan	83.00	-1.7%
179th	Rwanda	84.80	-1.4%
180th	Iraq	84.80	-1.0%
181st	Liberia	85.62	0.1%
182nd	São Tomé and Principe	85.75	-0.5%
183rd	Guatemala	86.25	-1.7%
184th	Eritrea	86.35	-2.5%
185th	Senegal	86.78	-0.4%
186th	Kenya	88.06	-1.3%
187th	Nigeria	88.43	0.3%
188th	Guinea-Bissau	89.41	-1.0%
189th	Sierra Leone	89.71	-0.3%
190th	Central African Republic	89.78	-0.3%
191st	Mauritania	89.80	0.1%
192nd	Cameroon	90.07	-0.7%
193rd	Tanzania	90.31	0.3%
194th	Benin	91.71	-0.7%
195th	Mozambique	92.22	0.2%
196th	Angola	92.30	-0.3%
197th	Madagascar	92.60	-0.4%
198th	West Bank and Gaza	92.79	-1.9%
199th	South Sudan	93.24	-0.5%
200th	Sudan	93.26	-0.4%
201st	Burkina Faso	93.86	-0.9%
202nd	Burundi	94.22	-2.3%
203rd	Côte d'Ivoire	94.58	0.1%
204th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	95.65	0.3%
205th	Gambia, The	95.77	-1.1%
206th	Guinea	96.79	-0.4%
207th	Mali	97.43	-0.2%
208th	Zambia	97.60	-0.9%
209th	Comoros	99.04	-2.1%
210th	Yemen, Republic of	99.44	-2.0%
211th	Malawi	99.52	0.4%
212th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	101.74	0.7%
213th	Niger	102.13	1.0%
214th	Chad	105.16	-1.5%
215th	Uganda	110.09	-0.3%
216th	Afghanistan	110.29	-0.2%

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