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Sri Lanka - Dependency Ratio 1996

Name: Sri Lanka Dependency Ratio 1996
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) · World Bank

53.23 −1.27 from 1995 Global rank: 71st

Sri Lanka's dependency ratio was 53.23 in 1996, decreased +1.27 from 54.50 in 1995. This was the 71st highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1996▾

Dependency Ratio by Country - 1996
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Cayman Islands	34.67	-1.3%
2nd	Singapore	34.81	-2.2%
3rd	United Arab Emirates	35.48	-3.8%
4th	Andorra	36.19	1.7%
5th	Qatar	37.28	-0.7%
6th	Korea	39.88	-1.9%
7th	Hong Kong SAR, China	40.45	-0.7%
8th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	40.76	0.4%
9th	Liechtenstein	41.04	-0.4%
10th	San Marino	42.77	1.0%
11th	Bermuda	43.48	1.3%
12th	Northern Mariana Islands	43.51	-4.2%
13th	Slovenia	43.77	-0.5%
14th	Japan	43.95	1.1%
15th	Cuba	45.19	0.7%
16th	British Virgin Islands	45.38	-1.3%
17th	Thailand	45.85	-1.3%
18th	Channel Islands	45.89	0.4%
19th	Spain	45.98	-0.9%
20th	Czechia	46.00	-1.5%
21st	Italy	46.08	-0.4%
22nd	Germany	46.40	0.2%
23rd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	46.42	0.4%
24th	Aruba	46.67	-3.7%
25th	Netherlands	46.68	0.4%
26th	Croatia	46.85	0.8%
27th	Serbia	46.90	1.0%
28th	Macao SAR, China	47.03	-0.2%
29th	Greenland	47.49	0.6%
30th	Hungary	47.59	-0.6%
31st	Canada	47.75	-0.2%
32nd	Romania	47.78	-0.9%
33rd	Turks and Caicos Islands	47.83	-1.2%
34th	Switzerland	48.16	0.5%
35th	Luxembourg	48.37	1.2%
36th	Portugal	48.40	-0.5%
37th	European Union	48.55	-0.4%
38th	Denmark	48.66	0.5%
39th	Greece	48.75	-0.4%
40th	Bulgaria	48.89	-0.7%
41st	Russian Federation	48.93	-0.9%
42nd	Mauritius	49.02	-2.1%
43rd	Austria	49.19	0.1%
44th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	49.21	-4.9%
45th	Palau	49.23	-2.7%
46th	Malta	49.31	-0.9%
47th	Slovak Republic	49.44	-2.0%
48th	China	49.65	-1.4%
49th	Finland	49.99	0.4%
50th	Australia	50.05	-0.1%
51st	Montenegro	50.25	-0.3%
52nd	Ukraine	50.61	-1.4%
53rd	Poland	50.65	-1.5%
54th	St. Martin (French part)	51.03	0.3%
55th	Barbados	51.20	-0.6%
56th	Bahrain	51.41	-2.0%
57th	North Macedonia	51.45	-0.4%
58th	Belgium	51.53	0.6%
59th	Gibraltar	51.60	0.5%
60th	Cyprus	51.62	-1.3%
61st	United States	51.68	-0.6%
62nd	Belarus	51.73	-0.8%
63rd	Lithuania	51.82	0.2%
64th	Estonia	51.93	-0.1%
65th	Latvia	51.95	-0.5%
66th	Kuwait	52.25	-1.8%
67th	Bahamas, The	52.56	0.4%
68th	New Zealand	52.79	-0.1%
69th	Trinidad and Tobago	52.86	-3.6%
70th	France	53.02	0.1%
71st	Sri Lanka	53.23	-2.3%
72nd	Virgin Islands (US)	53.36	0.4%
73rd	Ireland	53.69	-2.9%
74th	New Caledonia	54.40	-1.2%
75th	Guam	54.45	0.4%
76th	Brunei Darussalam	54.77	-2.2%
77th	United Kingdom	54.82	-0.3%
78th	Norway	54.89	0.1%
79th	Curaçao	55.10	0.6%
80th	Iceland	55.11	-0.5%
81st	Puerto Rico (US)	55.16	-0.6%
82nd	Monaco	55.28	0.7%
83rd	Georgia	55.53	0.0%
84th	Chile	55.66	-0.3%
85th	Isle of Man	56.03	-1.1%
86th	Moldova	56.18	-1.0%
87th	Sweden	56.90	-0.2%
88th	Antigua and Barbuda	57.38	-1.3%
89th	Kazakhstan	58.08	-1.3%
90th	Brazil	58.65	-2.0%
91st	Seychelles	58.82	-1.4%
92nd	Uruguay	59.26	0.5%
93rd	Indonesia	59.50	-1.7%
94th	Faroe Islands	59.90	-0.4%
95th	Albania	60.16	-0.2%
96th	Türkiye	60.81	-2.1%
97th	Kosovo	61.52	-2.3%
98th	Colombia	62.09	-1.3%
99th	French Polynesia	62.12	-1.7%
100th	Azerbaijan	62.16	-1.0%
101st	Tunisia	62.21	-2.5%
102nd	Argentina	62.43	-0.6%
103rd	Libya	62.60	-4.1%
104th	Panama	62.66	-1.2%
105th	Myanmar	62.89	-1.6%
106th	Costa Rica	63.17	-1.8%
107th	Lebanon	63.73	-1.9%
108th	Israel	64.11	-0.8%
109th	Malaysia	64.55	-0.9%
110th	Armenia	64.56	-0.2%
111th	Suriname	65.30	-1.8%
112th	St. Kitts and Nevis	65.43	-3.2%
113th	Fiji	65.83	-1.8%
114th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	65.97	-2.4%
115th	Morocco	67.43	-2.1%
116th	Guyana	67.44	0.0%
117th	Mexico	68.33	-1.3%
118th	Peru	68.75	-1.6%
119th	Dominican Republic	69.22	-1.2%
120th	Viet Nam	69.45	-2.7%
121st	Dominica	69.61	-1.1%
122nd	Ecuador	69.67	-0.8%
123rd	India	70.21	-1.2%
124th	Grenada	70.53	1.1%
125th	Jamaica	70.56	-1.4%
126th	St. Lucia	71.39	-2.0%
127th	Oman	71.53	-1.6%
128th	Mongolia	71.99	-2.4%
129th	South Africa	72.03	0.8%
130th	Algeria	72.72	-3.0%
131st	American Samoa	73.43	0.2%
132nd	Tuvalu	73.82	0.7%
133rd	Saudi Arabia	74.79	-2.0%
134th	El Salvador	74.85	-1.8%
135th	Jordan	74.91	-0.4%
136th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	74.95	-1.6%
137th	Nauru	75.25	-2.1%
138th	Bangladesh	75.40	-2.5%
139th	Kyrgyz Republic	75.83	-1.6%
140th	Papua New Guinea	76.08	-0.8%
141st	Uzbekistan	76.79	-0.7%
142nd	Philippines	77.64	-0.9%
143rd	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	78.09	-0.4%
144th	Turkmenistan	78.90	-1.3%
145th	Samoa	79.14	0.3%
146th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	80.13	-4.9%
147th	Bhutan	80.23	-1.5%
148th	Kiribati	80.59	-0.1%
149th	Botswana	80.77	-3.1%
150th	Paraguay	80.96	-1.1%
151st	Tonga	81.21	-0.4%
152nd	Haiti	81.84	-0.7%
153rd	Nepal	82.33	0.2%
154th	Namibia	82.52	-0.6%
155th	Timor-Leste	82.64	0.2%
156th	Djibouti	82.88	-1.4%
157th	Belize	84.68	-2.1%
158th	Eritrea	84.85	-2.0%
159th	Lesotho	85.04	-1.3%
160th	Micronesia, Federated States of	85.05	-2.6%
161st	Nicaragua	85.66	-2.2%
162nd	Congo, Republic of	86.73	-0.6%
163rd	Liberia	86.88	-0.6%
164th	Equatorial Guinea	87.24	0.2%
165th	Togo	87.35	-1.1%
166th	Ghana	87.88	-0.8%
167th	Syrian Arab Republic	88.65	-1.6%
168th	Sierra Leone	89.28	0.2%
169th	Gabon	89.58	-1.2%
170th	Lao PDR	89.58	-0.3%
171st	Nigeria	89.84	-0.7%
172nd	Solomon Islands	89.91	-1.0%
173rd	Honduras	90.40	-1.3%
174th	Iraq	90.55	-0.8%
175th	Tanzania	90.62	0.7%
176th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	90.84	2.8%
177th	Mozambique	91.14	-0.8%
178th	Mauritania	91.14	1.1%
179th	Pakistan	91.50	-0.5%
180th	Vanuatu	91.58	-1.5%
181st	Guinea	92.10	0.2%
182nd	Senegal	92.45	-1.0%
183rd	Marshall Islands	92.76	-4.0%
184th	Madagascar	92.88	-0.1%
185th	Maldives	93.04	-2.8%
186th	Central African Republic	93.07	0.2%
187th	Guatemala	93.59	-0.5%
188th	Angola	93.73	0.2%
189th	South Sudan	93.85	0.6%
190th	Tajikistan	93.87	-0.6%
191st	Zimbabwe	94.13	-3.5%
192nd	Cambodia	95.08	-1.3%
193rd	São Tomé and Principe	95.72	-1.0%
194th	Cabo Verde	95.74	-1.5%
195th	Côte d'Ivoire	95.76	-0.9%
196th	Niger	95.76	0.2%
197th	Cameroon	96.69	-0.8%
198th	Sudan	96.96	-0.2%
199th	Benin	97.06	0.2%
200th	Eswatini	97.12	-2.3%
201st	Guinea-Bissau	97.46	-1.1%
202nd	Malawi	97.49	-0.3%
203rd	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	98.30	0.5%
204th	Kenya	98.50	-1.2%
205th	Gambia, The	100.47	0.4%
206th	Burkina Faso	101.49	-0.4%
207th	Mali	101.98	-0.4%
208th	West Bank and Gaza	102.91	-0.6%
209th	Zambia	103.45	-0.1%
210th	Chad	103.70	-0.6%
211th	Afghanistan	105.22	1.1%
212th	Burundi	108.88	1.8%
213th	Comoros	108.89	0.3%
214th	Uganda	109.50	1.4%
215th	Rwanda	113.97	-3.8%
216th	Yemen, Republic of	114.54	-1.1%

FAQ

What was Sri Lanka's dependency ratio in 1996?▾

Sri Lanka's dependency ratio in 1996 was 53.23. This ranked 71st globally.

How did Sri Lanka's dependency ratio change in 1996?▾

Sri Lanka's dependency ratio decreased by 2.3% in 1996 compared to 1995.

Which country had the highest dependency ratio in 1996?▾

Yemen, Republic of had the highest dependency ratio in 1996 at 114.54.

What is the dependency ratio of Sri Lanka in 1996?▾

The dependency ratio of Sri Lanka in 1996 was 53.23. This ranked 71st globally.

How does 1996 compare to 1995 for Sri Lanka's dependency ratio?▾

Sri Lanka's dependency ratio went from 54.50 in 1995 to 53.23 in 1996, a 2.3% decrease.

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