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Sri Lanka - Dependency Ratio 1989

Name: Sri Lanka Dependency Ratio 1989
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

62.50 −1.10 from 1988 Global rank: 92nd

Sri Lanka's dependency ratio was 62.50 in 1989, decreased +1.10 from 63.60 in 1988. This was the 92nd highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1989▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 1989
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Northern Mariana Islands	35.07	-2.9%
2nd	Singapore	37.46	-1.4%
3rd	Andorra	38.23	0.0%
4th	Qatar	39.26	-0.3%
5th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	39.44	-1.9%
6th	Bermuda	40.66	-1.7%
7th	Cayman Islands	40.96	-2.7%
8th	Greenland	41.03	2.1%
9th	Liechtenstein	41.22	-0.7%
10th	St. Martin (French part)	42.14	0.3%
11th	San Marino	42.59	-1.2%
12th	Hong Kong SAR, China	42.91	-1.0%
13th	Macao SAR, China	43.59	-3.1%
14th	Japan	43.81	-1.8%
15th	Serbia	43.84	0.7%
16th	Luxembourg	43.92	0.9%
17th	Channel Islands	44.16	-0.3%
18th	Germany	44.39	0.8%
19th	Netherlands	45.00	0.2%
20th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	45.35	-0.4%
21st	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	45.38	-1.6%
22nd	Korea	45.56	-3.0%
23rd	United Arab Emirates	45.60	-2.7%
24th	Croatia	45.83	-0.1%
25th	Cuba	45.85	-2.0%
26th	Switzerland	46.16	0.2%
27th	Slovenia	46.19	-0.3%
28th	Italy	46.20	-0.9%
29th	Canada	46.67	0.5%
30th	Aruba	47.56	-0.4%
31st	Austria	48.02	0.3%
32nd	Finland	48.33	0.9%
33rd	Russian Federation	48.67	0.9%
34th	Denmark	48.80	-0.6%
35th	Belgium	48.87	0.8%
36th	British Virgin Islands	49.04	-1.8%
37th	European Union	49.33	-0.3%
38th	Australia	49.49	-0.4%
39th	Latvia	49.62	0.5%
40th	Greece	49.87	-1.7%
41st	Bulgaria	50.31	0.2%
42nd	Belarus	50.33	1.3%
43rd	Montenegro	50.40	0.0%
44th	Ukraine	50.41	0.8%
45th	Lithuania	50.48	0.4%
46th	United States	50.77	1.0%
47th	Spain	50.88	-1.6%
48th	Estonia	50.97	0.7%
49th	Guam	51.00	-0.4%
50th	Gibraltar	51.25	-1.4%
51st	Malta	51.26	0.0%
52nd	Hungary	51.57	-0.9%
53rd	France	51.58	0.0%
54th	North Macedonia	51.62	-0.2%
55th	Romania	51.63	-0.3%
56th	China	51.93	-1.2%
57th	Georgia	52.01	0.5%
58th	New Zealand	52.02	-0.1%
59th	Bahamas, The	52.31	-1.3%
60th	Portugal	52.41	-1.5%
61st	Czechia	52.59	-1.7%
62nd	Thailand	52.84	-3.0%
63rd	Curaçao	52.86	0.1%
64th	Cyprus	52.87	-0.3%
65th	United Kingdom	53.54	1.3%
66th	Monaco	53.68	-1.1%
67th	Barbados	54.21	0.4%
68th	Poland	54.25	-0.1%
69th	Norway	54.40	-0.1%
70th	Mauritius	54.56	-0.9%
71st	Armenia	54.66	-0.3%
72nd	Virgin Islands (US)	54.90	-2.0%
73rd	Bahrain	55.15	0.5%
74th	Iceland	55.20	-0.5%
75th	Sweden	55.35	0.1%
76th	Turks and Caicos Islands	55.36	-3.1%
77th	Chile	55.80	-0.3%
78th	Slovak Republic	55.81	-0.8%
79th	Moldova	56.28	0.8%
80th	Faroe Islands	56.46	-0.3%
81st	Puerto Rico (US)	58.22	-1.1%
82nd	Palau	58.23	-3.3%
83rd	Isle of Man	58.82	-1.5%
84th	Brunei Darussalam	59.17	-0.8%
85th	Uruguay	59.50	-0.2%
86th	Azerbaijan	59.52	1.8%
87th	Kazakhstan	60.09	-1.2%
88th	New Caledonia	60.33	-1.5%
89th	Kuwait	61.62	-0.2%
90th	Albania	61.90	-0.7%
91st	Trinidad and Tobago	62.44	-0.9%
92nd	Sri Lanka	62.50	-1.7%
93rd	Antigua and Barbuda	62.59	1.3%
94th	Ireland	63.75	-1.3%
95th	Argentina	64.19	-0.1%
96th	Tuvalu	65.02	3.1%
97th	Seychelles	66.31	-2.0%
98th	Brazil	66.51	-1.2%
99th	French Polynesia	66.82	-0.7%
100th	Colombia	66.82	-1.1%
101st	Grenada	66.82	-0.9%
102nd	Indonesia	67.71	-1.9%
103rd	Costa Rica	68.16	0.0%
104th	Suriname	68.56	-0.6%
105th	Panama	68.69	-1.6%
106th	Israel	69.01	-0.7%
107th	Lebanon	69.14	-0.6%
108th	Türkiye	69.44	-1.7%
109th	Myanmar	69.57	-1.5%
110th	Malaysia	69.65	-0.8%
111th	Guyana	69.76	-1.4%
112th	Kosovo	70.10	2.1%
113th	American Samoa	70.98	-0.6%
114th	Fiji	71.48	0.0%
115th	Dominica	71.89	0.2%
116th	South Africa	72.59	-1.3%
117th	Kyrgyz Republic	73.14	0.6%
118th	Tunisia	73.30	-1.6%
119th	Ecuador	74.57	-1.4%
120th	India	74.75	-0.6%
121st	Dominican Republic	75.04	-1.3%
122nd	Nauru	76.44	1.7%
123rd	Uzbekistan	76.53	-0.3%
124th	Kiribati	76.57	0.9%
125th	Peru	76.57	-1.5%
126th	Jamaica	76.66	-1.5%
127th	Mexico	77.56	-2.0%
128th	Morocco	77.62	-1.8%
129th	St. Kitts and Nevis	77.76	0.2%
130th	Timor-Leste	78.93	1.9%
131st	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	79.06	-1.4%
132nd	Viet Nam	79.50	-1.5%
133rd	Papua New Guinea	79.63	-0.1%
134th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	80.01	-0.3%
135th	El Salvador	80.45	-0.2%
136th	Turkmenistan	80.95	0.3%
137th	Philippines	80.98	-0.3%
138th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	82.04	-0.3%
139th	Saudi Arabia	82.25	-0.4%
140th	Nepal	82.32	0.4%
141st	Equatorial Guinea	82.45	1.1%
142nd	Paraguay	82.61	0.2%
143rd	Tonga	82.81	-0.6%
144th	Libya	82.81	-3.0%
145th	Samoa	82.97	-0.5%
146th	St. Lucia	83.27	-5.0%
147th	Mongolia	83.78	-1.2%
148th	Haiti	84.17	0.0%
149th	Bhutan	84.39	-0.1%
150th	Algeria	84.49	-2.2%
151st	Cambodia	86.07	1.6%
152nd	Bangladesh	87.41	-1.6%
153rd	Oman	87.90	-3.4%
154th	Sierra Leone	88.06	0.2%
155th	Tajikistan	88.38	1.0%
156th	Djibouti	88.43	-0.8%
157th	Lesotho	88.52	0.8%
158th	Namibia	88.64	-6.1%
159th	Eritrea	88.79	0.9%
160th	Liberia	88.97	-0.4%
161st	Central African Republic	89.40	0.9%
162nd	Congo, Democratic Republic of	89.41	0.3%
163rd	Angola	89.57	0.8%
164th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	89.92	0.7%
165th	Lao PDR	89.96	-0.2%
166th	Pakistan	90.04	0.6%
167th	Guinea	90.16	0.3%
168th	South Sudan	91.11	-3.4%
169th	Congo, Republic of	91.32	-0.7%
170th	Vanuatu	91.41	-0.6%
171st	Ghana	92.17	-0.3%
172nd	Gabon	92.71	0.3%
173rd	Togo	93.45	-0.7%
174th	Mauritania	93.91	0.2%
175th	Nigeria	94.55	-0.3%
176th	Belize	94.66	-0.6%
177th	Botswana	94.97	-1.0%
178th	Guatemala	95.26	0.1%
179th	Mozambique	95.31	-0.5%
180th	Sudan	95.58	0.4%
181st	Niger	96.13	-0.2%
182nd	Madagascar	96.15	-0.8%
183rd	Micronesia, Federated States of	96.57	-0.5%
184th	Jordan	96.67	-1.5%
185th	Nicaragua	96.80	-1.0%
186th	Iraq	96.85	-1.2%
187th	Malawi	96.94	0.2%
188th	São Tomé and Principe	97.15	0.1%
189th	Maldives	97.89	0.9%
190th	Solomon Islands	97.91	-1.6%
191st	Tanzania	97.98	-0.6%
192nd	Honduras	98.02	-0.5%
193rd	Gambia, The	98.62	0.2%
194th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	99.09	1.3%
195th	Benin	99.13	0.0%
196th	Afghanistan	99.13	0.5%
197th	Cameroon	99.22	0.1%
198th	Senegal	99.24	-0.7%
199th	Syrian Arab Republic	99.36	-1.1%
200th	Burkina Faso	100.93	0.7%
201st	Chad	101.33	-0.3%
202nd	Mali	101.49	1.0%
203rd	Côte d'Ivoire	101.50	-0.4%
204th	Cabo Verde	102.18	-0.6%
205th	Eswatini	102.68	-2.7%
206th	Zimbabwe	102.69	-1.2%
207th	Guinea-Bissau	103.83	-0.3%
208th	Comoros	104.20	0.0%
209th	Rwanda	104.85	0.2%
210th	Uganda	104.97	0.2%
211th	Burundi	105.20	1.5%
212th	Zambia	105.74	-0.5%
213th	Kenya	106.67	-0.9%
214th	Marshall Islands	114.70	-1.1%
215th	Yemen, Republic of	116.36	0.7%

FAQ

What was Sri Lanka's dependency ratio in 1989?▾

Sri Lanka's dependency ratio in 1989 was 62.50. This ranked 92nd globally.

How did Sri Lanka's dependency ratio change in 1989?▾

Sri Lanka's dependency ratio decreased by 1.7% in 1989 compared to 1988.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 1989?▾

Yemen, Republic of had the highest dependency ratio in 1989 at 116.36.

What is the dependency ratio of Sri Lanka in 1989?▾

The dependency ratio of Sri Lanka in 1989 was 62.50. This ranked 92nd globally.

How does 1989 compare to 1988 for Sri Lanka's dependency ratio?▾

Sri Lanka's dependency ratio went from 63.60 in 1988 to 62.50 in 1989, a 1.7% decrease.

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